new mail server??

[Keith Morse]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David A. Bandel wrote:

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> The address, 64.116.183.1 for the new mail server, MCI is still sitting
> on.  They haven't done their part to subassign the 64.116.183.x block to
> me.  This is over six months.  If they can't get it right this month,
> I'm going to change providers.
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> David A. Bandel


FWIW, I truly feel for you.  So far, I've extremely lucky with my upstream 
ISP.  They respond quickly to PTR update requests.  In a month or so we're 
moving to Qwest for voice and data service. Looking at the check list for 
things that need to be verified and changed, I'm struck by just how 
pervasive 30 ip addresses (27 bit block) can insinuate themselves into 
your infrastructure.  Firewall rules, vpns, domain name server records, 
resource records, gad and the list goes on.

So far Qwest is a mixed bag.  Dealing with the Sales side is kinda sucky, 
conversely anytime I've dealt with their circuit repair folks the 
experiece is rather good.  I'm hoping the ISP technical side mirrors 
this experience as well.