BGP hijack from 23724 -> 4134 China?

Sat Apr 10 01:01:43 UTC 2010

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> This DID actually bite my company about 3 years ago.
> 
> A customer went to China (usually in NYC) and could not send email
> through the mail server because they were using POP-before-SMTP instead
> of the mail submission port .

The problem did not lie with blocking IPs. But with offering a flawed 
service such as pop before smtp to begin with. I know many ISPs/ESPs 
still do, much to my chagrin. The only way to submit email should be 
port 587 with TLS encryption, 3 years ago one could be forgiven for 
offering deprecated (*) port 465 with SSL, but not anymore (msoft 
clients have been fixed).

Regards,
Jeroen

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
* urd             465/tcp    URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM