[COLUG] Switching ISP and needing advice...

[Duane]

Rick Troth wrote:

> Yeah ... this is what I am doing lately:
> It's not Xen, but a FreeBSD "jail".  Works.
> Still have some problems handling the inbound spam.

I did say etc ;) I couldn't be bothered listing all the options,
depending on how many websites/domains etc, might be cheaper to just pay
for web/email hosting, rather then trying to run it yourself, unless
there is a good reason.

> But web, DNS, and everything else works.  And I route all of my
> outbound email through it so that people see email from me on a
> consistent relay address.  And the hosting provider was happy to
> plug in the PTR record at no charge.

Most should do this at least once for free, if they don't it's a sign of
how much it's likely to cost in future if you need any kind of support
services, apart from that a lot of people use forward and reverse
lookups as an anti-spam method these days, and some overly zealous RBL
admins go out of their way to black list anything apart from IPs that
reverse to mail.*

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Best regards,
 Duane

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