[170263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Mar 25 18:22:09 2014
Date: 25 Mar 2014 22:19:39 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5331EDAB.8000303@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <5331EDAB.8000303@2mbit.com> you write:
>On 3/25/14, 11:56 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> I think this would be a good time to fix your mail server setup.
>> You're never going to get much v6 mail delivered without rDNS, because
>> receivers won't even look at your mail to see if it's authenticated.
>>
>> CenturyLink is reasonably technically clued so it shouldn't be
>> impossible to get them to fix it.
>
>
>Nothing wrong with my mail server setup, except the lack of RDNS.
>Lacking reverse should be one of many things to consider with rejecting
>e-mails, but should not be the only condition.
"It would be inconvenient for me to make this change, therefore
everyone else should change instead."
Don't hold your breath.
R's,
John
