Subject: Re: Looking for various LCSPX model strings
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/15/2004 13:20:51
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>>> Quite easy: any dynamic netblock should be blacklisted on any list.
>> What kind of dumb idea is that ? Many people are stuck with dynamic IP
>> allocation (24 hour reset because ISP thinks that will prevent people
>> from keeping the link up all the time and free some ATM bandwidth) so
>> they shouldn't be allowed to use their own MX ? Instead of preventing
>> few problems which can be avoided in other ways (look below) this 
>> causes
>> lots of problems.
>
> Don't be your own MX then, but let it deliver to a "real" MX and post
> messages by sending them to your ISP's relay. That's IMHO The Right
> Thing (TM).

   Eh.  IMHO the Right Thing would be to dump the crappy ISP and give 
the business to one who will give you static addresses.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire             "...it's a matter of how tightly
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