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

the point, in some cases, at hosting companies is to be able to operate your own mail server.

On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Brendan Hide <[email protected]> wrote:

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