[HECnet] BTW, Peter..

[Peter Lothberg]

On 02/11/2013 11:21 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
    I tried to send you private mail to roll at stupi.se on January 12th, and
it just bounced.   I was offering you an OpenVMS 8.4 Alpha CD image.   Let
me know if you need it.

That would be cool. Bouncing mail, that's becouse Comcast don;t tell
you they do not provide connectivity to the whole Internet..   And my
mail sever is on the part they don't offer you.

Last time I checked, it was like this, if someone has an absolutely
imperatively important need to run their own mailserver, (mail going
in both directions), they needed to make a specific request. And then
convince or confuse the offended ISP.

    I do have that need, and I do run a mail server, and I've made no 
such request.   I'm on a Business class connection, which shares neither 
bandwidth, nor netblocks with dynamics, nor support staff.   (my netblock 
*used* to be dynamic, but hasn't been used that way for several years)

    For example, the last time I called them, the *first person who 
answered the phone* logged into a nameserver and corrected a PTR record 
for me. (I checked!)

    Now, the routing issue Peter mentioned...that's a different matter, 
which I will need to check out.   Lots of people and a few companies use 
my network, and I've not had any issues thus far.   I've always despised 
the "cable company" ISPs, for obvious reasons, but Comcast Business has 
surprised me by being absolutely top-notch from (my) day one.

They just have no connectivity. That's why you have no DECnet tunnel
to Stockholm. You should ask them for a discount and use that money to
buy services from someone else to fill the Comcast connectivity wholes.

-P