ArmenTel Blocked?
For the past four days I’ve been unable to send any emails through Thunderbird and Outlook Express. Each time I try my mail server rejects the messages and says that my IP address has been blocked.
Interestingly, this IP address is not one specific to my computer. Other ArmenTel dialup users I know also have the same IP address although as they use web-based mail services such as Yahoo and Hotmail the blacklisting doesn’t appear to affect them.
However, if the situation is as it appears, it’s quite outrageous and one that ArmenTel should address immediately. According to CBL, this is not the first time that such blacklisting has occurred.
IP Address 212.73.64.41 was found in the CBL.
It was detected at 2007-07-29 04:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 4 hours ago.
It has been relisted following a previous removal at 2007-07-07 21:57 GMT
If anyone else is experiencing similar problems or knows anything about this situation please leave a comment. If someone from ArmenTel is reading this post, please look into this situation immediately.
I can request a removal via the CBL site, but I find that such a situation existing for four days without the largest telecommunications and Internet company doing anything about it is quite ridiculous.
Well, requesting removal of the IP address seems to have worked:
Even so, I think ArmenTel should be responsible for maintaining their connection and not their users. Remember, the IP address was blocked for four days until I found how to remove it this morning.
Comment by Onnik — July 29, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
And a few hours later it’s blocked again. Really, does anything work properly in Armenia? Like I said, this is the largest telecommunications company in Armenia with control over the Internet — a prerequisite for the IT industry.
Now I discover that ArmenTel has apparently been blocked I’m beginning to wonder whether a friend reporting a number of sites being blocked to his Xter.net IP address isn’t the same thing.
Someone tells me its because a lot of porn spam apparently comes from Armenia. Does anyone know if this is true and more importantly, when someone supposedly responsible for maintaining the Internet here is going to look into it?
Incidentally, the IP blocking also prevents me from leaving comments on this blog which means this spam database is really used by a lot of hosting companies out there. Yes, I can request that the IP address be removed, leave a comment, but a few hours later, ArmenTel is blocked again.
And they don’t seem to care. Amazing.
Comment by Onnik — July 29, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
In the regions, we have not been able to use any email client or web email for about a week. They say it is an Arminco issue. However, my hope is buoyed a bit because everyone has been in a major blame game over it. How hard is it to simply keep everything in reasonable working order? How is a businessman supposed to carryout business if communications are never working when they are needed. I hope the Russians do better than the Greeks with the management in the coming months but at this moment I am not hopeful.
Comment by Jason — July 30, 2007 @ 8:27 am