From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 21:09:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B93A37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.attbi.com (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01B143FDD for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@acm.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.240.204.110]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20030618040910014004mdpre>; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 04:09:10 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5I499Nm046192; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Message-Id: <200306180409.h5I499Nm046192@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> References: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> Comments: In-reply-to Bill Moran message dated "Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:50:32 -0400." From: "Bruce A. Mah" X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_791027903P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:09:09 -0700 Sender: bmah@acm.org cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 04:09:11 -0000 --==_Exmh_791027903P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Bill Moran wrote: > My ISP is Adelphia Cable Internet. > > Their tech folks are incompetent, and their tech support is useless. > > Their mail servers are broken and therefore any mail to @freebsd.org > bounces. If you look at my headers, you'll see that I configured my > box to be its own mail relay and I'm able to send to the FreeBSD lists > (yippie!). > > However, it's still a DHCP addy and there's no way of hiding that. > Thus, my emails are getting rejected by a lot of other people ... > most recently, I'm finding that RoadRunner's entire SMTP system > rejects me. > > I am NOT paying for a static IP. I don't need it, I have no need > or desire to run any servers on this box - I wouldn't even bother > to run my own mail relay if Adelphia would fix theirs so I could > use it. > > When I try to talk to them, I get anything from "reinstall Windows" > to flat-out ignored. > > Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can get them to fix their > worthless shit? I've tried being nice. I've tried being an asshole. > I have nothing to threaten with, as there are no other high-speed > providers in this area. Interesting. This sounds very much like the past two days of my life (perhaps longer), except I'm on Comcast (formerly AT&T Broadband Internet). They had the DNS records for their outbound mail relays messed up such that the A and PTR records for any given relay machine were not consistent. This makes sending to the FreeBSD.org machines problematic. I have been having various problems with ATTBI's outbound mail relays off-and-on for over a year. When postmaster@comcast.net bounced a note I sent from my work machines to inform them of this problem, that was the last straw for me. I'm actively working towards switching towards a DSL provider with some clue (there's other issues involved as well that are outside the scope of this email). (To be honest, I didn't try working through Comcast's tech support, but based on my experiences with TCI and AT&T Broadband Internet's tech support, I don't think I was missing much.) I'm glad to hear your situation worked out finally. Bruce. --==_Exmh_791027903P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+7+Xl2MoxcVugUsMRAkTRAJ9/1zSjd5Nh/l12Cp2e4NuUCOKI6gCgi7v5 EIerBR5gtRaUzoQ9/1ehqNA= =vBlZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_791027903P--