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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Looking for DNS ...

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 05:14:12PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > >On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:24:01PM -0400, Brett Delmage wrote:
> > > > If your ISP is teksavvy (and maybe others) you can get static IP
> > > > DSL for a small fee per month.
> > >
> > On Sat, 3 May 2014, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > > Which I did. Just be ready to ask Teksavvy if you can relay mail
> > > through their smarthost or other SMTP servers, if sending to certain
> > > domains. I had to.
> > 
> On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:56:45AM -0400, Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit) wrote:
> > Strange. I use TekSavvy with a static IP, run my own mail server
> > (Sendmail, because I'm old) and DNS (BIND, also because I'm old) and
> > I've never had a problem sending mail to anyone.
> 
> You haven't. Could your IP in particular, or could just be that none of
> the recipients' domain were a problem.

I'm using my own IP block rather than a rented address from a larger random
ISP block.  This list is running on an address from that block too.

I may also be unaware of having emailed into a small number of black holes.

	slainte mhath, RGB

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