[IMC-Tech] Re: Things To Ask Insight

[dan blah]

On 4/25/06, Zachary C. Miller <zach at chambana.net> wrote:
> Here's a summary of things we need to get resolved with Insight (Dan,
> can you make the contact?):
>
> 1) Is there a higher capacity SMTP server than mail.insightbb.com that
> we can use. Does mail.insightbb.com (or any other SMTP server that we
> might use) have any limits on the volume of mail that we can send
> through it? I don't want us to get blacklisted for our normal amount
> of mail volume (which can be quite high, some of our mailing lists
> have (legitimately) over a thousand users).
only the one server and they say there is a 10mbit line going to it. 
i was told they dont have any per host bandwidth restrictions.  i am
able and ready to set up a relay on one of my mail servers if we need
to to asap.

>
> 2) When will we get a real static IP address? When they give us a real
> static IP address will it be properly registered as such in the RIR
> registration info in Whois? Will they give us reverse DNS (PTR)
> records of our choosing?
i was told "off the record" this will be happening by the end of next
month (may).  the tech i talked to was not able to answer any of my
questions in regard to how much control we would have over our static
ips.  on a related side note, on the 28th of this month registration
devices will be eliminated.  after the 28th all devices (up to 5)
plugged into the wan switch will get an outside ip.  until an
interface is set up for this system to ensure the 'persistence' of
that ip we will have to call insight :(

>
> 3) There seems to be a misconfiguration on the DNS servers that they
> assign to us via DHCP. If you try to do a forward lookup on the
> dynamic hostname that is associated with any insight PTR record it
> fails on the DNS servers we've been assigned but does not fail for
> other DNS servers. This is causing all kinds of complaints from
> tcpwrappers.
in regard to this the whole tech group was out to lunch (no idea what
i was talking about and i talked to a couple people).  there is a guy
i am able to call and ask for tomorrow in regard to this question...
lol (it only costs us a $160 :)

>
> % host -i 12.221.92.161
> 161.92.221.12.in-addr.arpa      PTR     12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com
>
> % grep nameserver /etc/resolve.conf
> nameserver 12.241.16.2
> nameserver 12.241.16.3
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com 12.241.16.2
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com does not exist at 12-241-16-2.client.attbi.com (Authoritative answer)
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com 12.241.16.3
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com does not exist at 12-241-16-3.client.attbi.com (Authoritative answer)
>
> % whois insightbb.com | grep "Name Server"
>    Name Server: NS4.ASP.ATT.NET
>    Name Server: NS3.ASP.ATT.NET
>    Name Server: NS2.ASP.ATT.NET
>    Name Server: NS1.ASP.ATT.NET
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com NS4.ASP.ATT.NET
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com      A       12.221.92.161
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com NS3.ASP.ATT.NET
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com      A       12.221.92.161
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com NS2.ASP.ATT.NET
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com      A       12.221.92.161
>
> % host 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com NS1.ASP.ATT.NET
> 12-221-92-161.client.insightBB.com      A       12.221.92.161
>
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Daniel