On 2020-01-23 Gerald Brandt wrote:
I agree with everything you said, except the smart people comment. If you tell me to login to my gmail account via web, and send and email to myself (from gmail to gmail) and use the successful delivery of the email as proof of port 25 being open, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Oh yes, the gmail garbage you got from them is laughable. True LOL material. I said there were smart people there, but it's clear you haven't reached one of them yet! There are also no-nothing canned-response people there :-)
The first person I talked to thought the 24.x.x x addresses they gave me placed me in India. WTF?
On 2020-01-23 Vijay Sankar wrote:
Tried to simulate your situation on one of our Shaw Cable modems. FWIW, it looks to me like your firewall is probably using a DHCP address instead of the static address you may have configured.
Vijay is right. My hunch you were on the DHCP address space is confirmed by your 24.* address comment. I have business customers on Shaw static business and none of them have a 24.* address. Most have a 184.* address, like Vijay's.
You should find out from Shaw what your static range is, and set your firewall/router/whatever to use static and set the IP manually. That's what most of the setups I'm familiar with are doing.
I think we've solved your problem! Let us know...