From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 09:33:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E21037B404 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504D643F75 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net (buffnet5.buffnet.net [205.246.19.14]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.12.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id h76GXA3S023611; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:33:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:33:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Doug Poland In-Reply-To: <25533.63.104.35.130.1060186797.squirrel@email.polands.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:33:20 -0000 Unfortunately, dynamic usually means not a business - which often means spam - and we are all losing hair over the war on spam. I now block ip's with no reverse dns On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Doug Poland 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? > > -- > Regards, > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >