New operational tool

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:58:19PM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote:
> Is it possible because they can't easily assign PTRs to their IPv6
> address space?

Their system automatically assigns a PTR to the initial IPv6 address in
the same manner as for the IPv4 address. I'm not sure about the ability
to assign a PTR to any further v6 addresses that are used though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-ops-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of staticsafe
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:37 PM
> To: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: New operational tool
> 
> On 12/17/2014 06:29, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > 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.".
> 
> They are also blocking outbound port 587 (submission) which I found out
> the hard way when mail was being delayed as Postfix tried IPv6 and timed
> out.

J.

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