[56692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 69/8...this sucks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Wed Mar 12 12:54:36 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>, "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:48:47 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
> After the renumber, I'll
> only have 69/8 space, which means all critical services such as my mail,
> dns, and web servers will all be affected. I hear it now. "I didn't
receive
> mail from so and so!" I check the logs and don't see an established
> connection to my server. So, is the problem that the far mail server lost
> the message, the user emailed the wrong place, or my new IP addresses
> weren't accessible by the far mail server or the dns servers that it uses?
There's several BCPs that tell you to have at least one DNS server and at
least one unfavorable MX off-site. If you did this, your mail would be
safe, albeit a little slow from misconfigured sites.
S
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