Sendmail/Exim and IP-Address
Gary Nichols
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:24:38 -0700
Craig are you taking the 5th again? 8-)
You know what else I disliked about sprint was the prioritization of service
traffic... but I won't even open that pandora's box.
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 18:46, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > Roderick,
> >
> > You should test and make sure that incoming tcp/25 is not blocked and
does
> > not violate your TOS agreement. Most consumer-level services are now
> > blocking incoming SMTP to prevent people from setting up unauthorized
> > relays and spam farms.
> > Not to mention that if you violate your TOS your provider can always
pull
> > your plug (as a few on this list have experienced in the past).
> >
> -----
> Now I'm not saying that I run a mail server on my Sprint Broadband
> connection and I'm not saying that there is a forward dns pointing to my
> ip address which has never changed on Sprint Broadband but I know for
> certain that they don't block port 25/80/ICMP or anything of that
> nature.
>
> Caching DNS server has worked for me...