2008/7/31 Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This dog is blocking the mails I send from work. We have a small office. > connected via ADSL. We got a static IP address and got the ISP to > reference the PTR record of that IP to a host name in our domain. > > This makes most mail servers in the world happy. Bug that specific dog > is angry because there were some cases of spam in our neighbourhood. So > the whole subnet is blocked. > > Now should I ask our ISP to to block port 25 to make the dog happy? >
You shoud inform your ISP immediately that their service is being blocked because of spammers opertating from them. The ISP will either: 1) Work to fight the spammers, thus helping their legitimate customers and the internet at large. 2) Do nothing, thus sinking into the pit the spammers have made. You and I will suffer until we take our money to more responsible ISPs. Just because an ISP provides the pipe from your door to the Wild, Wild, Web does not mean that they have to handle your business mail, http, and other traffic. Get a dedicated server in Germany or the US. It will be plenty fast for Israeli use as well. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
