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Gmail Requirements

If you are having trouble sending email to Gmail, note that you must have SPF or DKIM email authentication set up for your domain.

To authorize our Outbound Mail service as a valid mail source with SPF, you will need to add “include:auth.spf.rollernet.us” to your SPF record.

If you don’t yet have an SPF record and are using RollerNet for Primary DNS, you can go into the zone for your domain and add a TXT record with the following content:

v=spf1 include:auth.spf.rollernet.us -all

If you are not using RollerNet for Primary DNS, please refer to your Primary DNS host to create or update an SPF record authorizing “include:auth.spf.rollernet.us” as a valid mail source.

If you would like to add a DKIM record for your domain, you can generate a DKIM key with our online tool (or whichever DKIM generation tool you prefer). Email us the private key and selector name so we can add it to your account. Please note: You must email us from the primary email address on your account.

For more information see: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#zippy=%2Crequirements-for-all-senders

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Announcements Changes

New Feature: DNS Update

We’ve added a new feature to our Primay DNS service: DNS Update (RFC2136) support.

DNS Update enables clients and servers to register DNS domain names and IP address mappings on any DNS server supporting RFC2136 style updates. This method is supported on Roller Network Primary DNS with IP and TSIG access lists. DNS Update access lists are configured per-zone.

DNS Update is available on all account levels except Basic.

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Changes

Los Angeles POP Shutdown

As of today, October 16, 2023, we have disconnected AS11170 from peering at Any2 West and will shut down our Los Angeles POP at CoreSite LA2. These projects did not generate the kind of interest we had hoped, and we have decided not to renew our contracts for LA2.

Cross connect services will no longer be available to Los Angeles.

Our connection with NTT at LA2 will be retained and converted to a direct transport connection.

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Changes

Header Tagging Changes

The following header tagging changes are currently being implemented as part of some cleanup work we’re doing.

X-Rollernet-Blacklist will be renamed to X-Rollernet-DenyList to follow a general replacement of the label “blacklist” with “deny list” and “whitelist” with “allow list”.

The X-Rollernet-DNSBL header will be changed to remove the leading “found” if a client IP address was found on a list. The format will be: [client] (in|not in) <list>

The X-Rollernet-DNSBL header will have the return code included with the list name when a client IP is found to be listed.

Client IP addresses in X-Rollernet-* headers will be enclosed in [] brackets; this was not being done consistently.

The X-Rollernet-Abuse header will be modified to only include mailto and https URIs.

The X-Rollernet-Spf header was depreciated years ago and will be removed. SPF results are available in the Received-SPF and Authentication-Results headers.

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Announcements Changes

Mail Transfer Allowance Retired

We are retiring “Data Transfer” and transfer allowances on all of our paid Mail/DNS accounts, effective immediately.

The idea of having transfer allowance or transfer limits comes from our early days back when we were using T1 lines for internet access or had to pay usage-based fees to upstream providers.

Now we are a colocation data center where metered bandwidth is a thing of the past. Today’s internet backbone is based on fixed rate bandwidth. We have access to plenty of transit and peering connections, so the concept of limiting or billing for data transfer no longer makes sense.