Re: IPv6. was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

On 2013/03/18 06:19 PM, John Levine wrote:
> There are hosting companies handing out individual IPv6 addresses to 
> customers. You don't have to tell me what a bad idea this is, but they 
> claim they're stuck with it due to some characteristic of the 
> networking hardware they bought. (A counter-argument, of course, is 
> that your poor business decisions are not my problem, and if you don't 
> want your whole datacenter blocked every time a customer leaks spam, 
> you better figure out how to fix that and give a /64 to each customer.) 
The general solution for "dialup" (adsl/etc) accounts is to disallow 
traffic going outside the network to port 25 and to provide a 
centralised mail gateway service.

I see no reason this can't be done in a hosting environment as well.

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