I've been getting flamed by several of you off-list for picking on a "big carrier." As result, I decided to pass this one on to the list. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:56:50 -0500 (EST) From: Wants to keep his job <spork@xxxx.com> To: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net> Subject: RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Yeah, this "network architect" responded to a post of mine on NANOG that using TAP to send pages was just dumb when I could simply email my pager "directly". Uh... Yeah, that will get my page about "the internet" being down right out to my pager right quick. Of course I didn't see his response for a few weeks, as it fell into my spam folder. Wonder why? xxxx@shell[~]$ telnet 205.152.173.2 25 Trying 205.152.173.2... Connected to ns1.arch.bellsouth.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ns1.arch.bellsouth.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.1a/8.9.1; Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:53:06 -0500 (EST) mail from: spammer@theinternet.com 250 spammer@theinternet.com... Sender ok rcpt to: xxxx@xxxx.com 250 xxxx@xxxx.com... Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself sigh... . 250 CAA02152 Message accepted for delivery quit 221 ns1.arch.bellsouth.net closing connection enough said. flame on... (name deleted) --- Bellsouth: Please patch your spam hole. We all know they'll be using that one now. BTW: Any reason why you have SMTP service on a nameserver available from the global internet Money that tight that you can't have dedicated boxes to do DNS and DNS only? (On the phone to brokers voicemail: "Bellsouth: SELL IT! SELL IT! SELL IT!") --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc