Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:33:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10308061232270.1659-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <25533.63.104.35.130.1060186797.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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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" >
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