Re: aol rejects mailing lists?
Thus said "J.F. Noonan" on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:00:41 CDT:
When I first read it, I laughed out loud because I *do* tend to think of AOL as an incorrect domain. But this, coupled with Christian's report, looks more like they've broken something than done something deliberate. Telneting to port 25 of air-yh04.mail.aol.com times out at the moment...
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? :-) Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 6:40pm up 42 days, 21:18, 4 users, load average: 1.14, 1.29, 1.20
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/
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