[68373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need a cox.net mail server contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Champeon)
Thu Mar 11 01:22:05 2004
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From: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
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on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:19:18PM -0800, Gregory Taylor wrote:
>
> The IP that 2mbit.com inhabits is on a Road Runner commercial block,
> which is allocated for small to mid-sized businesses. There is no
> reason for commercial cable networks to be blocked under the same
> pretenses that consumer cable networks are blocked.
Well, except that they're often no more secure than anyone else, usually
lack rDNS that might distinguish them from consumer grade networks, and
you'd have to be insane to accept mail from any mail server with generic
rDNS. Other than that, you're right.
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