[ale] [OT] AT&T/UVerse going to carrier grade NAT?

[Scott Plante]

That's a good point, Derek. But block lists are for your outbound mail (i.e. inbound to the recipient) and the question was about inbound access. You could always use the EC2 IP for your MX record for inbound mail and route your outbound mail through your ISP or some other service. Still, it's something you have to be aware of to work around. 


Scott 
----- Original Message -----

From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 9:48:32 AM 
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] AT&T/UVerse going to carrier grade NAT? 

Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> writes: 

> You could do that with an Amazon EC2 instance. It's free for the first year 
> and pretty cheap after. You get a virtual Linux box and you can even get a 
> static IP. You could set up ssh (or better, autossh) with port forwarding, 
> then just go to your instance's IP (or name). You could probably set up 
> OpenVPN on the instance too, and then connect from to it from both ends (home 
> and wherever you are). 

Except, of course, that most of the Amazon EC2 network block is on every 
DNSBL around because spammers use EC2 hosts. So EC2 is generally 
useless if you want a mail server. 

-derek 
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