[170267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Mar 25 19:25:45 2014
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:25:21 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D7D0845-CB25-4C05-8FAB-F5728C8602DD@heliacal.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:16 -0400, Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
wrote:
> One would hope that with IPv6 this would change, but the attitude of
> looking down on end subscribers has been around forever.
And for damn good reasons (read: foolish and easy to trick into becoming a
spam source.) Granted, "enterprise" players are only slightly less foolish
and easy to hack. My inbox being proof hosting providers cannot police
their idiot users.
ISPs will need to continue the "evil" practice of blocking outbound port
25.
--Ricky
