Re: Well, my VAX won't make a year of uptime after all

From: John E. Malmberg (wb8tyw_at_qsl.network)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:23:14 -0400

Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
> In article <T4t%c.21419$vy.9144@attbi_s52>, brad@rabbit.dnsalias.org (Bradford J. Hamilton) writes:
>
>>In article <NDEMLKKEBOIFBMJLCECIMECKDMAA.tom@kednos.com>, "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> writes:
>>>!Not sure why you think there is a problem. You basically just rent a
>>!line, get a static ip and have your MX records point to it. Your ISP
>>!should be able to take care of all that.
>>
>>True, but I'm used to an ISP that hands out dynamic addresses only - I was
>>"hoping" that there was a way to cope with that scenario. Perhaps not. :-)
>
> There is. Use www.dyndns.org or another dynamic DNS site. You reserve a name,
> you tell them whenever your numeric-IP changes - and there are ways to do this
> automatically - and your new numeric-IP propagates around accordingly.

Several Broadband ISP's specifically prohibit running servers on their
residential services or their DHCP addresses. Some do not actively
enforce their TOS until there is a complaint.

Easynet.nl used to have a web page that listed links to the TOS of
several ISPs.

And in my area, there is only one ISP that will supply anything other
than dialup, and they do not have any service plan that allows servers,
even if you pay extra for business, or for a fixed I.P. address.

In addition, none of the mail servers that I get mail from will now
accept e-mail directly from any I.P. address known to be dynamically
assigned.

When my broadband supplier implemented DNSbls on the mail servers for
open proxies and known DHCP pools, the spam leakage has dropped to
almost nothing from about 35 to 40 per day.

Back to the original posting,

A machine check usually indicates a hardware problem of some sort, with
a smaller probability of a software problem, usually in a device driver.

Putting a power conditioner or UPS may prevent the occurrence if it was
from a power glitch.

-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network
Personal Opinion Only

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