From: "Bob George" <mailings02@ttlexceeded.com>
"Richard Goodman" <r.goodman@11harvard.com> wrote:
My home DSL has been down for over 48 hours and it appears that it will be down for several more days. (I spare you the gory details). I am concerned about losing mail coming into various domains at that site.
Hey, I wouldn't mind a few of the sort-of-gory details. I have recently installed Speakeasy DSL and am thinking of running my own DNS and mail. I am willing to have a bit of trouble in order to learn how it works, but is it common for DSL to "go down"? Why is that? It goes through the phone line, and in nearly half a century on this planet I don't remember the phone not working since a tornado went by a block from our house when I was about ten years old. Of course, except for dial-up internet access, I can easily go for months without making a phone call. If it did go down I might not notice. Was it a problem on their end, or did you drop a brick on your modem?
I was in a similar situation not too long ago when prolonged outages, address changes and ISP port blocking became too much to deal with. Losing my mail was fine, but the family went nuts when I was on the road and we had an outage.
What's up with that? DSL or TV cable? Why outage?
I wound up moving my SMTP to a $2/mo. hosting plan that will queue mail for me until I poll using POP via fetchmail. I've permanently pointed my MX record there, as their reliability is far better than mine (residential cable).
Wow! Where did you find mail hosting for $2/mo? -- Keith