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Re: Find a firewall in a network path


From: Lorenzo Capanna <lorenzo.capanna () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:07:08 +0100

Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
On 2008-01-20 Lorenzo Capanna wrote:
The port 21 is filtered from network A to host B.
Port 21 is not generally filtered from network A ( I'm able to connect
to hosts different than B ).
Port 21 is not generally filtered in the host B. ( From networks
different than A I'm able to connect to B)
Port 80 is not filtered from network A to host B.

It seems that a firewall is blocking port 21 connection from network A
to host B.
The admins of the network A gateway and of the B host deny the
firewall rule presence.

Is there a way to identify the firewall in the network path from A to B?

tcptraceroute might do the trick.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
Thanks. I'll try it as soon as possible.

Lorenzo Capanna





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