Battellemedia.com Blocks My IP

Date January 4, 2007

In the last time I recognized that I can’t reach John Batelle’s home page battellemedia.com from my home internet connection, I can’t even ping it!?

When I scan the ip from my home network I get this:

$ nmap -sS -sV -A -O -P0 battellemedia.com

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-01-04 01:52 CET
Warning:  OS detection for 64.131.65.78 will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Warning:  OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on wing.birdhouse.org (64.131.65.78):
Not shown: 1696 filtered ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION
8443/tcp open  ssl     OpenSSL
Device type: general purpose
Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.6.X (89%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.9-42.(x86, SMP) (89%), Linux 2.6.9 – 2.6.12 (x86) (87%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
Uptime: 24.108 days (since Sun Dec 10 23:19:56 2006)

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ .
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 163.947 seconds

From one of our servers this result looks much better:

root@gandalf ~
$ nmap -sS -sV -A -O -P0 battellemedia.com

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-01-04 01:53 CET
Interesting ports on wing.birdhouse.org (64.131.65.78):
Not shown: 1649 filtered ports
PORT      STATE  SERVICE         VERSION
20/tcp    closed ftp-data
21/tcp    open   ftp             PureFTPd
22/tcp    open   ssh             OpenSSH 3.9p1 (protocol 2.0)
25/tcp    open   smtp            Exim smtpd 4.63
53/tcp    open   domain
80/tcp    open   http            Apache httpd 1.3.37
110/tcp   open   pop3            Courier pop3d
143/tcp   open   imap            Courier Imapd (released 2005)
443/tcp   closed https

8443/tcp  open   ssl             OpenSSL

Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.6.5 – 2.6.11
Uptime 24.106 days (since Sun Dec 10 23:20:53 2006)

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 40.415 seconds

Birdhouse.org is the hosting service, I already wrote them a request.

Update: Scot has contacted me. They are blocking a wide range of IPs from China and Romania. By chance my IP (the whole netrange 212.241.65.0 /24 of my provider Liwest, where my IP is included, is blocked) was in this netrange, even though I live in Austria. Scot fixed the problem already. Thank you Scot!

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