[38870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: aol rejects mailing lists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.F. Noonan)
Thu Jun 21 00:12:41 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:22:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: "J.F. Noonan" <jfn@msc.com>
To: Andy Bradford <bradipo@xmission.com>
Cc: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
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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/
