Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:29:16 -0700 From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space Message-ID: <BB567AEC.19449%mksmith@noanet.net> In-Reply-To: <25533.63.104.35.130.1060186797.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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On 8/6/03 9:19 AM, "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> wrote: > Hello, > > This isn't so much a FreeBSD topic but a comment and a request for resources. > As a long > time FreeBSD admin/user I know this is a large, diverse, and eloquent > community of > technical users. I hope someone can point me to a resource or group of users > that > address this policy. > > Within the last two months both AOL and Time Warner Road Runner have > implemented port 25 > blocks from hosts with IP addresses in the "dynamic address space". Time > Warner claims > other major ISPs are/will be implementing the same policy. > > I support several smaller organizations computer infrastructures. The server > backbone > in all these orgs is FreeBSD and they all have SMTP servers with IP addresses > in the > "dynamic" space. More of our outgoing mail is starting to bounce as these > ISPs bring > these new policies online. > > Is anyone else uneasy with this trend? Maybe it's just me and I don't like > being > discriminated against because I don't have the money to own static IP > addresses. One > would think groups of responsible and technically competent users would be > organizing > against this trend and attempting to make their voice heard. > > A little help here? What is the "dynamic address space"? Do you mean RFC 1918 space such as 10.0.0.0/8? Or, are you referring to addresses in what is commonly referred to as "the swamp," comprised of pre-CIDR allocations of addresses? Mike -- Michael K. Smith NoaNet 206.219.7116 (work) 206.579.8360 (cell) mksmith@noanet.net http://www.noanet.net
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