On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Andy Bradford wrote:
Hmm, that shouldn't come as a surprise since it isn't even listed as an MX:
[andy@home:mail andy]$ dnsmx aol.com 15 mailin-01.mx.aol.com 15 mailin-02.mx.aol.com 15 mailin-03.mx.aol.com 15 mailin-04.mx.aol.com
In addition, unless you have some special routes, I'm not even sure how you are getting anywhere with that name:
[andy@home:mail andy]$ dnsip air-yh04.mail.aol.com 172.18.147.41
Which is clearly a private class address as defined by RFC 1918. Probably a big no-no publishing private addresses in your public DNS, but this is AOL we're talking about, right? :-)
Arrgh! <self-lart> <sheepish> I grabbed the address out of the transaction log and tried it without really thinking about it. No, it's not really a surprise as I filter 1918 addresses at my border. </sheepish> Anyway, someone else posted to that list containing the two AOL addresses three hours ago, and I just sent one myself, and I've had no bounces from either post yet. Maybe it was just passing brain damage, now healed. -- Joseph F. Noonan Systems Manager Rigaku/MSC jfn@msc.com http://www.RigakuMSC.com/