Viss@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io man, the internet is full of prudes who run mailservers
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Remember when the internet was full of NERDS who ran mailservers... :(
Running OWA in 2001 for your family was a right of passage... or was that just me?
Fritz Adalis@kajer@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
You had a machine big enough to run Exchange in 2001? Nice. All I had was a Deskpro running Courier and Squirrelmail.
Viss@kajer@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io i am still a nerd and i still run a mailserver :D
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
I have had entire AS numbers added to the mystery blocklist because i had an MX record for mailinator on a domain. That domain was canceled by the registrar because of said MX record.
Running your own mailserver in 2025 is a flex, as big email keeps doing weird shit to make it harder to self host. Yes, SPAM and shit is a problem, but that mystery denylist everyone subscribes to is a bigger problem.
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
I have had entire AS numbers added to the mystery blocklist because i had an MX record for mailinator on a domain. That domain was canceled by the registrar because of said MX record.
Running your own mailserver in 2025 is a flex, as big email keeps doing weird shit to make it harder to self host. Yes, SPAM and shit is a problem, but that mystery denylist everyone subscribes to is a bigger problem.
Viss@kajer@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io so it seems like if you have a static ip in a datacenter, and thats not "someones cloud" - i mean like, i physically have actual iron in a colo here in san diego - and its got full forward/reverse dns done up - i have site to site wireguard tunnels so that the mailserver physically in my house can talk across those tunnels and egress to the internet on a datcenter IP, and that seems to work just great?
Viss@kajer@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io so it seems like if you have a static ip in a datacenter, and thats not "someones cloud" - i mean like, i physically have actual iron in a colo here in san diego - and its got full forward/reverse dns done up - i have site to site wireguard tunnels so that the mailserver physically in my house can talk across those tunnels and egress to the internet on a datcenter IP, and that seems to work just great?
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
I have iron in a colo and WG all of my home traffic via ... I get all sorts of weird shit for using my /48 and /26 on a daily basis.
Maybe your colo isn't as accessible as Hurricane is? Given how cheap a rack is, it's probably no surprise there are ~100 customers ripping the internet to shreds from there. /shrug
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
I have iron in a colo and WG all of my home traffic via ... I get all sorts of weird shit for using my /48 and /26 on a daily basis.
Maybe your colo isn't as accessible as Hurricane is? Given how cheap a rack is, it's probably no surprise there are ~100 customers ripping the internet to shreds from there. /shrug
Viss@kajer@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io i personally know the guy who runs the datacenter space - he owns a hosting company. colo isnt overtly someting he offers, im pretty sure i just got the buddy deal because we know eachother in person. but i bet i could get a friend or three in there the same way if persuaded the right way :D
his business is leasing servers, though
Viss@kajer@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io i personally know the guy who runs the datacenter space - he owns a hosting company. colo isnt overtly someting he offers, im pretty sure i just got the buddy deal because we know eachother in person. but i bet i could get a friend or three in there the same way if persuaded the right way :D
his business is leasing servers, though
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Man, I miss my shadycolo(tm) deal. We had a full /24 and 20A of power for pennies.... We even got free apple FC disk shelves after the owner of sex.com sold the domain and fucked off.
kajer | sudo bash@Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Man, I miss my shadycolo(tm) deal. We had a full /24 and 20A of power for pennies.... We even got free apple FC disk shelves after the owner of sex.com sold the domain and fucked off.
Virginicus@kajer@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I love Mastodon.
Virginicus@kajer@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I love Mastodon.