Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?
In Dallas (TX, US), SBC provides DSL with the option of Business Class
DSL, providing 5 static IP's. I believe that on the west coast, PacBell
provides standard class DSL with one static IP (they did a year ago).
Business Class DSL costs $75/mo, while the PacBell thing was around $40/mo
if I remember correctly.
Again, in Dallas, I could go to another ISP who buys DSL form SBC and
resells it. Some, I've heard, would provide me with one static for a very
low cost.
Check again for DSL providers in your area, especially resellers.
Resellers generally buy large blocks of IP's and some of them give you
statics as part of the package, others at an additional cost. I hosted a
half dozen sites on my DSL line for a few years after it became available,
then eventually moved it to a colo. However, my secondary DNS is still
sitting on the same DSL.
Rod
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> Here is some helpful info;
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> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/index.html
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> http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/
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> WARNING! Blatant flame ahead! Danger Danger!
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> The real problem is that you are a second class Internet citizen because
> you don't have a "business class" service, which means a T1, E1, or
> greater.
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> Angry? Good, you should be. I am.
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> I have similar problems with mail servers that do reverse DNS SMTP
> session checking. Short of paying for a T1 at $800 USD a month, there
> is no way that I can get an IP allocation with reverse DNS delegation so
> that I can make my mail server's MX record match up with the PTR record.
>
> I live in a major metropolitan area with over 1.3 million inhabitants
> within the United States, and I can't get an ISP to give me an IP
> allocation unless I blow major money for "business class" service. As
> Jesse Jackson would say, "It's a grrrrrrave injustice!" =)
>
> I am fortunate enough that my ISP's DHCP lease is very stable, the
> netblock is not marked as a Dial-up/DSL/Cable net, and they do not
> perform any port filtering. Unfortunately, my ISP's staffers are brain
> dead and don't even know what reverse DNS delegation is. Hell, even
> their own MX record does not match up with their PTR (orlandotelco.net).
> They probably suffer from the same problem that I do. How funny and
> yet maddening.
>
> Reverse DNS checking for SMTP sessions is a good idea in theory, but in
> practice, it just makes you a Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) and gets
> you false positives for spam filtering.
>
> Anyway, pardon my rant.
>
>
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> Chris Evans wrote:
>> What a horrible question?!
>>
>> Situation: I have run a postfix/spamd-SA/RAV/ecartis based Email list
>> service (confirmed opt in, never redistributed a spam in some years
>> now). It runs off a box at home through British Telecom broadband
>> and is low volume (the lists concern psychotherapy and psychotherapy
>> research: my day job, and are run for some charities). Since
>> 22.vi.03 AOL have started refusing my smtp traffic (with a 4.0.0
>> message so I didn't find out for some days). Netscape are doing
>> same.
>>
>> Turns out when I finally get a British Telecom supervisor on the
>> phone to complain that I get no response to my complaints to them by
>> Email, that AOL are moderately well justified in doing this because
>> it seems that BT ran open relay for some time (he says not since last
>> November which sounds untrue but even that seems unbelievably
>> stupid). Since mine is a BT IP address I'm blocked and I would be if
>> I relayed through BT's server. (Though they'd like to charge me more
>> for the priviledge of doing that now they've understood relaying and
>> clamped it down -- rightly -- 'cos they do it by domain name as well
>> as IP address and ... aargh .... you get the picture).
>>
>> So I'm looking for a Debian (since I like Debian!) ISP, ideally in
>> the UK, who would be willing for me to relay for psyctc.org,
>> atprn.org, atprn.org.uk (all on 217.34.100.194, coming out through
>> 198). I've got a shorewall firewall, RAV scanning for virii (but
>> probably ditching that something else now they've joined M$!) and
>> spamd-SA-razor doing antispam and loads of other antispam from
>> postfix. Total traffic is 682k messages out in just under a year
>> according to mailgraph, it says max ever was 1012 mssgs/min and mean
>> 1.6 msgs/min. Most are very small, basic Email list traffic. My own
>> traffic contains occasional large (16Mb record I think) stats and
>> presentation files.
>>
>> Not a lot of money for this as I do it as a gesture for the charities
>> but I am willing to pay something if anyone is willing and will quote
>> me. I can either relay everything or just aol & netscape for now. I
>> will take relaying out if things settle down.
>>
>> Anyone willing to offer, please contact me off list:
>> chris@psyctc.org.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Chris
>> PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling
>> and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research,
>> teaching and consultancy.
>> Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle
>> http://psyctc.org/ Email: chris@psyctc.org
>>
>>
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