Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:20:44 -0700 From: "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> To: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Verizon Spam Filter Question Message-ID: <01b101c0eb7f$f97e1ea0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> References: <JEENJJEOICOIFPANEHOOGEDDCAAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org>
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From: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org> > Jim: > > I have said this a million times to my friends and Verizon "haters".. > "Verzion kicks ass as long as you don't have to call them." I currently > have Verizon DSL and VerizonOnline is my ISP. I have the what used to be > the "Platinum" package (T1 down/Half-T1 up). I always get my full bandwidth > no matter what time of day it is and the only downtime I ever experience is > the rare hardware maintenance they do. Granted it helps living 6,000ft. > from my CO. I will probably upgrade to the 7.0M down/T1 up when it becomes > avaliable. I second this, bar the comment about calling them. However, in my case I have a 3rd party ISP so I just get the wire from Verizon. Every time I've called Verizon their technicians have been very helpful, have usually isolated the problem very quickly and have often sent out an engineer to double-check even when I've already confirmed that all is well. I had performance problems last year, but these were directly attributed to my ISP not Verizon. Oh, I'm also right at the distance limit for "Platinum" as well - must be a good 1.5 miles to the CO. > > Verizon does not block ports, but there is a down side to that. When > someone packeting you on ports below 1024 they can't/won't really do > anything about it. They expect you to log it and then submit the > information to a "security" divison of the ISP who is supposedly to deal > with it for you. And this is precisely why I use them over cable. I am hosting my two domains (with DNS from register.com) for mail, http, ftp and nntp. I get to mess around on my server and learn stuff, sometime even do something useful :) If the system ports were blocked, there'd be little reason for me to bother with a server. > > The Verizon mail servers are very strict. If you do not connect to the mail > servers with an IP that resolves to one of the Verizon owned domains then it > rejects it. Although, there is a bright side. If you buy a domain and if > you are fortunate enough to buy an IP for that domain, then just use a > FreeBSD server to be the mail servers. They do a wonderful job.. as you can > see you are reading this e-mail. :) Ditto :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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