can we / do we want to enforce mail policies ? Is it our bussiness?
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: -------- CUT HERE --------- [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. -------- END HERE ---------- 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
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
Dear Tiberiu, You wrote: [snip telnet SMTP session]
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?
The RIPE NCC has not been given any authority to control the way individual network operators configure their networks. However, the RIPE Database contains contact information for the technical and administrative contacts of the networks registered. When it is not possible to send e-mail to contacts it is often possible to call them on the telephone and discuss problems that way. Finally, if you do want to change the country code listed in the RIPE Database for an inetnum object, then you might consider using "EU" instead. It's often used as a placeholder for a two-letter ISO 3166 country code. Regards, -- leo vegoda RIPE NCC Registration Services Manager
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