[156013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking MX query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Sep 4 10:46:08 2012
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWLngf6HY3Yano0TNKpPs5c_Efbkswck+T-yw2Drodf8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> There are no "good" subscribers trying to send email direct to a
> remote port 25 from behind a NAT.
Users, like myself, running Linux on home computers and laptops; our local
sendmail-equivalents will in fact attempt direct delivery to remote SMTP MX
servers, and we generally move around enough that setting a smarthost is
semi-impractical, at least on laptops.
I'm a bad subscriber, Bill?
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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