Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP

[Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
Cc: <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP

>> Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can get them to fix their
>> worthless shit?  I've tried being nice.  I've tried being an
asshole.
>> I have nothing to threaten with, as there are no other high-speed
>> providers in this area.

>Interesting.  This sounds very much like the
> past two days of my life (perhaps longer),
> except I'm on Comcast (formerly AT&T
> Broadband Internet).  They had the DNS
> records for their outbound mail relays messed
> up such that the A and PTR records for any
> given relay machine were not consistent.  This
> makes sending to the FreeBSD.org machines
> problematic.  I have been having various
> problems with ATTBI's outbound
> mail relays off-and-on for over a year.
>
> I'm glad to hear your situation worked out finally.
>
> Bruce.

My ISP's "main" SMTP box has no PTR records;
I made an end run around them by using their
firewall box instead...I even told one gal about
it, recently, but so far, so good....

Kevin Kinsey