submitting a port

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Tuesday, September 09, 2003 01:48:01 +1000 Mark Russell 
<freebsd at mark.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, September 08, 2003 08:36:56 -0700 "Hay, Russell"
>> <Russell.Hay at wwireless.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ahh All the bored college kids home from school?
>> dunno who or why, but there was MASSIVE (I.E. 1000's of PR's) abuse, so
>> they
>> turned it off.
>>
>> It's a real shame :-(
>
> doesn't explain why they stopped accepting PR's from unresolved IP's
> though, use your standard BL's but a blanket ban is stupid, like most
> telco's
Again, too much abuse.

My mailserver whines a lot about no reverse DNS.  Why can't the ISP in 
question
just put up generic forward/reverse on their dynamic IP's?

We (Internet America, Inc/Dallas, TX US/My Employer) do.

LER

>
>>
>> LER
>>
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:ler at lerctr.org]
>> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:37 AM
>> > To: Mark Russell; Sergey A. Osokin
>> > Cc: ports at freebsd.org; Hay, Russell
>> > Subject: Re: submitting a port
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --On Tuesday, September 09, 2003 01:32:32 +1000 Mark Russell
>> > <freebsd at mark.net.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:24:13AM -0700, Hay, Russell wrote:
>> >>> > I'm trying to submit a new port using send-pr, but my ISP doesn't
>> >>> > give reverse DNS for my IPs, and Postfix on freebsd.org will not
>> >>> > allow mail unless it can do a reverse DNS look up on the IP.  Is
>> >>> > there another way to submit the PR to get a port added to the
>> >>> > ports collection?  Or someway around the IP address issue?
>> >>>
>> >>> Just talk with your ISP about reverse DNS lookup.
>> >>
>> >> And if your ISP is clueless like the dominant telco in .au?
>> >>
>> >> There is a web based send-pr somewhere on the fbsd site.
>> >
>> > Nope.  It was turned off during the North American Summer due to
>> > MASSIVE abuse.
>>
>>
>>



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