We’ve made some enhancements to our Client Validity Checks filter: configurable envelope address characters and a multi-domain settings mode. Although all 7bit ASCII characters are technically allowed by RFC, many of the uncommon ones are misused by broken mail servers, viruses, and poorly written mass mailers. If desired, some of the most commonly abused characters [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
IANA IPv4 Free Pool is Now at 6.25%
From the ARIN-announce mailing list: ARIN has been allocating IPv6 addresses since 1999 and has been actively advocating the need to deploy IPv6. In 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees resolved to educate and inform the Internet community regarding IPv4 depletion and the increasing need to adopt IPv6. This resolution became part of a larger [...]
The End of the Verizon Story
If you’ve been following our Verizon story, you know by now that we’ve been trying to get them to turn up a dual-stack circuit for over a year now. Last year on June 7, 2009, we signed an agreement for Verizon to deliver fiber to our premises. This allows us to offer our customers a [...]
Default DNSBL Change
This post has been removed; it was being used to further a disagreement between third parties unrelated to Roller Network. A screen capture of the original is below. We, as a hosting provider or ISP, are not in the position to judge what may be “objectionable” content because everyone will have a different opinion.
Hosted Mail Outage
One of the servers in an active/standby pair that’s part of our hosted mail service locked up for reasons unknown at this time. The standby didn’t automatically take over so we cut power to the active server to force the standby to promote itself to active. Master ticket ID 2125. We are seeing a successful [...]
New: Greylisting Multi-Domain Settings
A multi-domain configuration tool for the Greylisting filter is now available on accounts with a service level of Personal Plus or higher.