[AusNOG] IPv6 reverse DNS and Mail ...

[Terry Sweetser (SkyMesh CTO)]

Shane,

You'll likely get some "feedback" on these remarks.

Yes, you're correct that the industry has some BOFH running parts of the 
internet and associated mail servers.

Yes, if clients are not getting email, they complain: you fix your 
problems and you notify the sending systems to fix their problems.

Google has never missed putting an outbound mail server online without 
SFP, rev dns and other measures in place: delivery is not guaranteed but 
missing well know steps to achieve such is not a good policy for any 
provider or business.

All up, most of us here are not in the business of fixing the entire 
internet's mail servers ...

http://about.me/terry.sweetser

On 21/05/13 00:38, Shane Short wrote:
> Not to call anyone out in particular, the general contempt some sysadmins show for their users is phenomenal-- sometimes I think people forget why we have these networks in place. We run these networks to service a customer or business need, not to give you toys to play with during the day.
>
> If the customer isn't getting their mail, you're not doing your job. You can't dismiss the person with "oh the other end is doing something I don't like so I'm rejecting their email"
>
> So what if someone on the other end of the world haven't set up rDNS properly on a box? Google don't set up any rDNS on much of their network infrastructure, which bothers me, shall I blackhole their traffic? I bet that'd last a whole 30 seconds before someone bitches me out.