Rants about Open Source virtualization, and whatever else comes to mind. The following is my opinion and does not represent the opinions of IBM in any way.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Email Glitch
My cable modem gave out late last night and since I'm out of town I won't be able to restart the stupid thing until September. Fortunately, I was able to bring up a quick relay so that @codemonkey.ws email is now going somewhere. I don't think it was down long enough for retries to timeout but if you sent me an email between midnight-8pm CST today, you may have to resend. If mail servers are caching the MX record aggressively, it'll definitely bounce.
On a positive note, I discovered that I can use my utexas account as an authenticated SMTP relay for @codemonkey.ws. Lately, I've been getting a lot of outgoing mail rejected b/c my cable modem's network is on a few blacklists since they're dynamic IPs. This should provide a solution until I get back to Austin and colocate a real server somewhere.