OT: Internet at home without active phone line

[Jamon Camisso]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> Well rogers cable can be very fast (downstream).  Of course there is
>>> the dynamic IP (although it rarely changes) and the ban on running
>>> servers and such, which teksavvy doesn't have. And you can get blocks
>>> of static IPs on teksavvy.
>> ... and Rogers blocks SMTP port...
> 
> They don't with the "business" service, not that it's worth anything
> since many servers will reject mail originating from stmp servers on the
> Rogers domain anyway. You shouldn't be rejecting Rogers on this basis.
> Though TekSavvy will give you a static IP, I have no idea if they will
> do reverse DNS for your domain. Without a reverse DNS, your mail will be
> rejected by some servers, most of which you can't ignore. You can always
> relay through your ISP's smtp server, though Rogers requires that you
> "register" each of your email addresses with Yahoo before allowing that
> (the better to spam you).

I just heard back from TekSavvy support after asking about it for my ip,
with a static IP they'll set rdns for you. Quoting:

"As long as you've got a static IP with us, we can certainly set the
rDNS to whatever you'd like, within reason."

Fun!

Jamon
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