Fun new policy at AOL

Thu Aug 28 15:31:31 UTC 2003

Matthew Crocker wrote:

>
> SMTP & DNS should be run through the servers provided by the ISP for 
> the exact purpose.  There is no valid reason for a dialup customer to 
> go direct to root-servers.net and there is no reason why a dialup user 
> should be sending mail directly to AOL, or any mail server for that 
> matter (besides their host ISP)
>

...and there is no reason for dialup customer to have direct access to 
any other port either,
they´ll just use the www-proxy and other ALG services from the ISP ?

This is a self-solving problem.

Pete