It is true that Dynect has it’s root in the free “dyndns.org” project, but it is clear to me that their offering has “grown up”. I have been impressed with how fluid the administration console is, and how quickly updates I make propagate out to the anycast nodes.

My dealings with Dynect have been completely professional in nature and they did not come off feeling like a bunch of amateurs. I did have that concern in the back of my mind as well before I started my evaluation of options.

Interestingly enough, DNS.com did not come up in any of my searching or through my contact network, but it does look interesting. It appears to be trying to break into UltraDNS’s market as well. I don’t have any facts to base an opinion on them yet. Perhaps I will give them a spin next time around.

-Eric

An excellent overview of the Portland area. And a very good unbiased approach at describing most of the current telecom players in Portland Metro. Keep up the good work!

The reason a reverse DNS entry is required is for outbound mail to certain domains. I believe Comcast and AOL are two of the prime offenders that require some kind of reverse DNS entry to exist for a host that sends them mail or else they will bounce it (or refuse to accept it).

For inbound mail to work you need an “MX” record pointed at an “A” record that points to your IP address.

Good luck!

P.S. Its worth noting that a lot of ISP’s block port 25, so perhaps your getting caught up in that? If you have another host you can login to somewhere else on the internet go to a shell prompt and type “telnet 25″. If the screen clears and you get a black screen then a TCP connection worked. If it fails to connect then perhaps Qwest is blocking port 25, or your router is not forwarding the connection properly.

-Eric

I have new 12 MBps Qwest DSL running through ActionTec pk5000 with ports 25 and 443 forwarded to my internal Ms Exchange Edge and Mail OWA servers respectively… I know the 443 port forwading works because I can get to the OWA web page from outside.. But no mail I send to myself (like from GMail), is reaching the Exchange server… Is this because of not having reverse dns set up properly somewhere?

You could create two separate networks (one jumbo frame enabled, and one not), but they would need separate IP subnets and then you may need routing between them depending on what you are trying to do.

-Eric