[61335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Aug 28 06:10:44 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:10:11 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Susan Zeigler <susan@arcana.manske.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3F4DB0A2.61489B64@arcana.manske.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I just looked on their website to file a complaint and ask how they
> determined what was dynamic and what was static and couldn't find a
> contact email address. I did find the following statement:
> "AOL's mail servers will not accept connections from systems that use
> dynamically assigned IP addresses."
>
> It was on the following page:
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/standards.html
Whoa.. thats crazy. Obviously its an effort to stop relay forwarding from cable
modem and DSL customers but there are *lots* of legitimate smtp servers sitting
on customer sites on dynamic addresses.
I've numerous customers I can think of straight away who use setups such a
MS Exchange on dynamic addresses where they poll POP3 boxes and send their own
SMTP!
