On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Jens Link wrote:
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
I expect my connections to my mail server to actually reach my mail server. I use TLS and SMTP AUTH as well as IMAP/SSL. Many of the "just works" settings in question break these things badly.
One of my customers has an appliance for his WLAN guest access access which filters out AAAA records. :-(
jens@bowmore:~$ dig AAAA www.quux.de @8.8.8.8 +short jens@bowmore:~$
Wow... Yeah, that would definitely result in a lengthy conversation between their tech. support department and me. The ones that are even worse, though, are the ones that pass through AAAA and do RA/SLAAC advertisements, but, don't provide IPv6 connectivity. Oh, and, I stayed at one place that didn't pass TCP/53, so, they broke things like Blizzard authentication. Owen