Hi there


"A.I. van Berkel" wrote:

> I have now sent four mails to Planet Internet during the past two weeks.
> No reply whatsoever.

That figures.

> The idea of using a tunnel is starting to appeal to me.
> However, the domain registration started three months ago.
> Any chance of undoing the contract and moving my domain?
> Does anyone have experience.

They fucked up, which is probably a breach of contract.

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> I solved the mail problem by changing the timeout of RFC1413 requests from
> 30 to 20 seconds.
> My guess is that Planets mail-relay does not accept Ident requensts.
> As a result, my server will wait the full 30 seconds before replying to the
> SMTP greeting of the Planet server.
> If Planets mailserver has a timeout of less than 31 seconds for the SMTP
> greeting, then this will trigger the synchronization error in exims logfile.

Which is behavour typical of malware.

> However, I find it strange that the timeout on Planets server would be so
> short. The standard timeout for SMTP greetings is 5 minutes!
> If the timeout is indeed so short, Planet does not comply to internet standards.
> Moreover, it makes the Planet server look like a SPAM-server.

Just like blocking port 25, their behaveour interferes with standart
anti spam / malware measures.
Again, typical of PI.

> I asked Planet if my analysis and my solution makes any sense.
> Obviously, no reply (do they even have e-mail?)
> Therefore, I would like to ask this group: does my analysis make sense?
> Do you have any experience with the servers of Planet Internet?
> Is the solution robust enough or should I switch of RFC1413 requests altogether?

The only thing that doesn't make sense is doing busyness with PI.
They are a bunch of mindless jerks who belong in an institution for the
criminaly insane.


Regards,
Rob
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