On 05 Jan 2001 04:55:18 +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
>>> I have a problem. Optus@Home in Australia (one of two cable
>>> internet providers) have decided to firewall port 25 traffic
>>> (incoming) to their entire network except for their own mail
>>> servers. This means my mail server is virtually useless...
>>
>> Maybe ask the administration nicely to open up port 25 for certain
>> IPs if the machine passes an open relay test?
>
>If no less personal solutions are available, then I will try
>it. Getting to talk to the administration of telcorp's here in
>Australia is harder than finding a tinny of VB in Alaska at the
>moment. They don't particularly care about their customers, and they
>know that (at the moment), there are only two cable providers in the
>whole country and both are as crap as the other.
>
I was told that running servers on either of the cable networks was contrary to their
AUPs so my mailserver
runs on a 'permanent' dial-up to BPD which is enough bandwidth for my 20 or so family
accounts and for various
other uses. It also gives me a range of static IPs and an IN-ADDR classless routing
lookup for the names.
Anyway this is OT.. time to go.
