lots of problems solved: my life story

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Hi. In addition to having the static IP, if you have your own domain, 
Qwest will even do a reverse dns for your static IP. When I was in 
Denver, I did this with them and it was fantabulous.

Tyler Littlefield said the following on 11/26/2008 4:43 PM:
> Hello,
> If you all remember, I was having issues with mail, I left it for a 
> while and decided to return to playing with it.
> According to my logs, some servers block dynamic IP addresses, and I was 
> refered to a site that confirmed as much.
> On this site I was also told that:
> a, dynamic IP addresses were blocked from sending mail,
> b, I had to use the Qwest smtp server.
> So, I called up tech support and actually for once in my life found 
> someone who sounded like they new what they were talking about.
> We covered the problems with my modem, and got to briding the modem and 
> using my linxsys which I want to put open wrt on anyway as the real 
> router, which I am going to end up doing sometime when I have the time 
> to play with it.
> Then he told me that qwest didn't supply smtp to "home" customers, 
> (shocking!), and my only bet was a static IP.
> So, I obtained the static IP, and lots of things (including mail) are 
> now in working order.
> 
-- 
Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net


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