Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:20:18 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <bmah@freebsd.org>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP Message-ID: <024001c335b5$83241ac0$c141d5cc@nitanjared> References: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> <200306180409.h5I499Nm046192@bmah.dyndns.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP >> 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. > > I'm glad to hear your situation worked out finally. > > Bruce. My ISP's "main" SMTP box has no PTR records; I made an end run around them by using their firewall box instead...I even told one gal about it, recently, but so far, so good.... Kevin Kinsey
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