Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Juniper does this also. Jeff On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:51 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) nan...@adns.net wrote: OK, its been a year since my Barracuda subscription expired. The unit still stops some spam. I figured that I would go and see what they would do if I tried to renew my subscription

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Tim Chown
On 9 Apr 2011, at 04:56, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Apr 9, 2011, at 10:51 AM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: My question is - does anyone have any suggestions for another e-mail appliance like the Barracuda Spam Firewall that doesn't try to charge their customers for time not used

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Bryan Irvine
As do some states with automotive registration. It's a quite normal practice. -B On Apr 9, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Jeffrey Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net wrote: Juniper does this also. Jeff On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:51 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) nan...@adns.net wrote: OK, its been a

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Phil Regnauld
Tim Chown (tjc) writes: I don't know quite how high a performance you need. If it's just email spam/viruses you are concerned with, you can run MailScanner for free, see http://www.mailscanner.info. It's been around for 10 years now and used by a lot of big organisations, many of which are

Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites

2011-04-09 Thread Job Snijders
Dear All, On 8 Apr 2011, at 19:34, Lori Jakab wrote: On 04/08/2011 06:39 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: LISP can also be a good option. Comes with slightly more overhead in terms of encapsulation/etc. than the GRE tunnels I use and has limited (if any) functionality for IPv4 (which GRE supports

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net [ Charging back rent on your appliance ] Juniper does this also. To pick a slightly different milieu, the Zimbra email system does not; if you let your support contract lapse, you simply aren't entitled to support

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Rich Kulawiec
It's quite easy to build your own [out of open-source components] that easily outperforms any appliance on the market. (Which isn't saying much: none of them are very good, and all of them are way overpriced. The bar is thus set quite low.) It will not have all the superfluous bells and whistles

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread TR Shaw
On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:51 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: OK, its been a year since my Barracuda subscription expired. The unit still stops some spam. I figured that I would go and see what they would do if I tried to renew my subscription EXACTLY one year after it expired. Would their

Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites

2011-04-09 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Apr 9, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Job Snijders j...@instituut.net wrote: Dear All, On 8 Apr 2011, at 19:34, Lori Jakab wrote: On 04/08/2011 06:39 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: LISP can also be a good option. Comes with slightly more overhead in terms of encapsulation/etc.

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew Kirch
John, My suggestion isn't _QUITE_ an appliance, but it works very well and I've been exceptionally happy with it. It's a distribution of linux controlled via a web interface that does far more than just mail filtering (at which it is both flexible and adept). Take a look at

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread pr...@cnsny.net
Andrew, We use and offer Postini - a front end service. Postini is a anti virus and spam filter, and can spool mail if your circuits are down. Postini is a Google company and works like a charm. If you need more information please contact me offline pr...@cnsny.net Paul Sent from my

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Runkel
Ok, shameless plug here, but I invite you to check out our product @ www.untangle.comhttp://www.untangle.com. Base product (including anti-spam) is free. If you want support/web filtering/ or better spam rules they are available as premium add-ons. Marc Runkel Untangle, Inc. Director,