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Nigel Metheringham edited this page Nov 29, 2012
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Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts running other operating systems?
If you are sure this isn't a policy issue (that is, your box isn't administratively blocked for some reason), this may be because your Linux box has ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) enabled in its TCP/IP stack. There are many broken firewalls that refuse connections from ECN-enabled hosts. You can check the state of your box by running
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
If the value is "1", you have ECN enabled. You can turn it off by running this command:
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
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