Some admins overwhelmed with spam block entire blocks of IP address space based on patterns of abuse as recorded in blocklists of various types. As overwhelmed as they are they can't achieve finer granularity (they say). You could request your IP address to be whitelisted (the way this problem is usually handled Jeffrey Race On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:05:08 +0200, Tiberiu Ungureanu wrote:>Hello
Until today, i thought mail is for everyone. But today a customer of the ISP i work complained about not being able to send email to one of his co-workers, because his IP Address is in Romania.> So here I am, testing:
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[tbb@Hydra tbb]$ telnet 195.41.47.12 25 Trying 195.41.47.12... Connected to 195.41.47.12. Escape character is '^]'. 220 watt.pil.dk ESMTP Postfix helo pil.dk 250 watt.pil.dk mail from: tbb@ines.ro 250 Ok rcpt to: nanna@baconcph.com 554 Service unavailable; Client host [80.86.96.6] blocked using ro.countries.nerd.dk; Your IP is in ro, rejected based on geographical location Connection closed by foreign host.
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Now... I think this is stupid. Anyone has same opinion? OR all romanians should be banned from using a computer? Should I complain to RIPE-NCC? Can they help? (Afterall, they delegated the 195.41.47 block)
Should I ask permision from RIPE-NCC to register my IP space in a different country?
-- Tiberiu Ungureanu Network Engineer iNES Group SRL - Internet Dept. Tel: +40 21 2322112 / Fax: +40 21 2323461 Public GnuPG Key at http://www.ines.ro/public_keys/tbb.gpg