why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

Wed Mar 26 02:03:44 UTC 2014

On 3/25/14, 6:24 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> The problem is, it blows my cred and rep with my end users when on day
> one of getting them set up and fully running on IPv6, they can't e-mail
> the local school district, or their business partners, because the other
> end uses Google mail.  It makes me look like an idiot, and they start
> questioning why should they waste time/money on getting to be IPv6 ready.

I don't quite see how this is anything to do with IPv6.

If you set up an IPv4 mail server with no reverse DNS, your mail would
be rejected by many servers, too. And there are certainly plenty of
providers who won't let you configure the reverse DNS of an IPv4 address.

Your provider assigned you an IP address with no reverse DNS, and you
set up a mail server on that IP address. Most people would say that was
unreliable even before knowing you're talking about IPv6 instead of
IPv4. <shrug>

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/