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Re: reverse DNS questions
From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2003
Time: 10:21:21 pm
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:26 PM, Jeff Justice wrote:
> This has been an interesting thread, particularly the statement from
> RoadRunner. We host using a commercial RoadRunner account and they
> absolutely refuse to assign reverse DNS for our IP addresses.
Pathetic isn't it? Then why on earth do people buy RR? I ask myself
that question every time I lose a customer to them. Hmmmmm.. Could it
be price? Well you pay for what you get. RR is cheap, so I would
expect this from them. I have RR at home and its slow, latent and
speeds are all over the place at the strangest times. But what do I
expect for 50 buck a month? I'm an ISP, and I know what it costs to be
an ISP so I'm not complaining.
>
> Which I suppose means they would block email coming from one of their
> own commercial customers...?
Yes, and they do. Another nice thing to note about RR is that they are
in 2 of the blacklists that they use themselves to block spam.
>
> Anybody had any luck getting RoadRunner to assign reverse DNS for a
> commercial customer? I haven't worried too much about it because our
> mail is going through. But considering how much we pay for the
> service, you'd think we could expect the same thing as other
> business/commercial bandwidth providers.
Not that I know of. But again, this is Cable we are talking about. It
is not a business class of service. Its cheap. Although it is cheap,
it is good for most things, and can work perfectly fine for a SOHO,
however you give up a few things. So you can live with the compromises
or buy a circuit from a Tier 1/2. T1 or higher providers do not
typically have millions or even thousands of residential customers
taking up resources and time. So how much do you pay and how much do
you get? $500/mo. $1000/mo. $2000/mo? what?
>
> (BTW, I've had T1's and DSL. Believe it or not, the commercial
> RoadRunner has been more stable than both of those services, although
> I had no trouble getting reverse DNS assigned with T1 or DSL.)
I'd argue with you all day about the reliability of DS1 or above. Your
statement simply is not true or indicative of that type of service. I
would be interested to know what types of problems you had because if
that were true ISP's would be using Cable :-) DSL is comparable to
cable in performance and latency. RR has not been bad at home, but
again, I pay $50 a month for it. If its down for a day or two, or slow
as hell or completely inconsistent, (which it is) why should I
complain? Its only 50 bucks a month. Now if I am paying $1500/mo. for
a T1 and it drops even one packet over a 24 hour period, I would be
going ballistic.
Like I said, you have some compromises to make when you use Cable.
Lack of inverse DNS and guaranteed tiered service are a few of those
things you have to compromise on.
Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
e-mail: jer@mia.net
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