Re: Bye Snubby, hello Mail Rejector

2003-09-20 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:39:34 + (GMT) "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooh, when did Verisign get rid of their Snubby program and put in something that > actually behaves like an SMTP server? Seems verisign are watching the community > reaction and acting to rectify their error

Re: Providers removing blocks on port 135?

2003-09-20 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:22:34 +0100 "Ray Bellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What we do have though are (optional) *inbound* filters that make sure > no-one can connect to their privileged ports over TCP/IP, and a mandatory > filter that says only our network can deliver to their SMTP service. > >

Re: Verisign suggestion

2003-09-18 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:24:40 -0400 (EDT) Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > ...and for heavens sake, stop accepting any kind of request at all on port > : > 25!! Just shut it down altogether. There is no reason for you to accept > : > any connection of any kind on port 25! > > : If the

Re: Verisign suggestion

2003-09-17 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:25:48 -0400 (EDT) Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...and for heavens sake, stop accepting any kind of request at all on port > 25!! Just shut it down altogether. There is no reason for you to accept > any connection of any kind on port 25! I shall only respond to thi

Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

2003-09-16 Thread David B Harris
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:48:43 +0300 (IDT) Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Verisign is a business and its goal is to make money.More importantly, > > its a publically traded company whose goal is to make its stock value go up. > > So, if we're interested in having them listen, we shoul

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-16 Thread David B Harris
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:50:07 +0300 (IDT) Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you think this kind of change should have been discussed first? Or > at the *very* least - a 3 day pre-change notice? Or did mgmt think a > pre-notice would have caused a firestorm of sufficient size to ma

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-15 Thread David B Harris
Sorry for the double-post folks, I got a bounce and didn't look closely at it. If somebody could check the subscriber list for an address that might result in [EMAIL PROTECTED] filtering really innocent emails (I know this has happened to others too), and contacting the owner, that would be great.

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-15 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:29:43 -0700 Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It looks like it broke. Your web server (64.94.110.11) is inoperative. > How about backing out the change Chances are your ISP has null-routed that IP address. Two of the larger ISPs in my area (Ontario, Canada) have,

Re: What *are* they smoking?

2003-09-15 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:45:26 -0700 Fred Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:18 PM 9/15/2003, Jeroen Massar wrote: > >Even worse of this is that you can't verify domain names under .net > >any more for 'existence' as every .net domain suddenly has a A record > >and then can be used for spamming

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-15 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:29:43 -0700 Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It looks like it broke. Your web server (64.94.110.11) is inoperative. > How about backing out the change Chances are your ISP has null-routed that IP address. Two of the larger ISPs in my area (Ontario, Canada) have, a