New operational tool

Jonathan McDowell noodles at earth.li
Wed Dec 17 12:29:43 CET 2014


On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:23:32PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On 17/12/14 11:58, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > Interestingly they don't currently support *outbound* IPv6 SMTP (at 
> > least from LON1) and have no ETA for when they might.
> 
> By ‘support’ do you mean ‘allow’? (*)

Outbound IPv6 connections to port 25 time out and the statement from
Digital Ocean was "Unfortunately, at this time, we do not allow SMTP
over IPv6.".

> --
> (*) Also known in some circles as ‘not blocking’, although this usage
> is somewhat controversial, pending an RFC publication.

J.

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