Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:19:16 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ARG!!! 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostnam Message-ID: <15047.54164.84349.606429@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <40510956@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > I'm very sympathetic to users that want to run their own mailserver, but I > have no sympathy whatsoever if they try to go behind my back and use one of > those dynamic dns server thingies on the Internet to get a matching reverse > address for a dynamic IP they have pulled out of the dialup pool. I think > that people that run those sorts of DNS servers ought to be lined up against > the wall and shot at dawn. Only if the preceding sunset you shot every ISP that doesn't offer static IP addresses as an option for their services at the same price as the dynamic dns servers (i.e. - between $0 and $5/month). When the choice is between $5/month for dynamic DNS services, or a couple of hundred a month for collocation services, guess which I'm going to pick? I did make sure I'm not in violation of my TOS. I also think I convinced them to fix their monthly open relay tests to bounce to them, not me. > This is rubbish. If you were running Windows you wouldn't have problems - > and you know why - because your Windows mail clients relay through the > RoadRunner mailserver. Mine certainly wouldn't. Running FreeBSD on a dialup account, I used a relay, just like Windows. Of course, I used (horror of horrors) an open relay run by one of the five ISPs I used when I was using a dialup account. Because that was the only sane way to avoid having to reconfigure my mail system every time I connected to the internet. ISPs that don't provide services that some users want have to expect that others will pick up the slack. If they feel like those users are "working behind their back" - well, tough. From what Ted said, he's one of the ISPs that tries to accomodate green(*) users. That he suffers because other ISPs are less professional and create a market for dynamic DNS services is a shame, but no more so than that green users suffer because of spam-prevention measures. Those things are part of life on the internet these days. <mike *) A reference to Kermit of Sesame Street, not politics. -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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