[68569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Sullivan)
Sun Mar 14 16:58:52 2004
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:58:13 -0700
From: Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040313170032.4123B18F48@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> every time i tell somebody that they shouldn't bother trying to send e-mail
> from their dsl or cablemodem ip address due to the unlikelihood of a well
> staffed and well trained and empowered abuse desk defending the reputation
> of that address space, i also say "buy a 1U and put it someplace with a real
> abuse desk, and use your dsl or cablemodem to tunnel to that place."
My cable modem provider filters port 25, so I can't run my own SMTP
server. Their mail servers suck. Yes, I could pay for a business class
cable modem connection and they'd unblock the port... but I'd likely
still be filtered.
Guess who is having a dedicated 1U set up right now? ;-)
I think Paul is right, there is a small niche market for this.
