From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 09:19:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8824A37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A23643FBF for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from email.polands.org (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h76GJuNP030923 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:19:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 63.104.35.130 (proxying for 164.5.45.79) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:19:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <25533.63.104.35.130.1060186797.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:19:57 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:19:59 -0000 Hello, This isn't so much a FreeBSD topic but a comment and a request for resources. As a long time FreeBSD admin/user I know this is a large, diverse, and eloquent community of technical users. I hope someone can point me to a resource or group of users that address this policy. Within the last two months both AOL and Time Warner Road Runner have implemented port 25 blocks from hosts with IP addresses in the "dynamic address space". Time Warner claims other major ISPs are/will be implementing the same policy. I support several smaller organizations computer infrastructures. The server backbone in all these orgs is FreeBSD and they all have SMTP servers with IP addresses in the "dynamic" space. More of our outgoing mail is starting to bounce as these ISPs bring these new policies online. Is anyone else uneasy with this trend? Maybe it's just me and I don't like being discriminated against because I don't have the money to own static IP addresses. One would think groups of responsible and technically competent users would be organizing against this trend and attempting to make their voice heard. A little help here? -- Regards, Doug