[63889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL mail server problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Oct 12 14:36:18 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:04:27 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Brian Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310121414300.8137-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
jlewis@lewis.org writes on 10/12/2003 11:46 PM:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:
>>I've noticed some weird things going on with AOL's smtp servers today -
>>2003-10-12 12:37:48 1A8k8X-0002OC-0c Remote host mailin-04.mx.aol.com
>>[64.12.138.89] closed connection in response to initial connection
>
> They're probably blocking you. Have you gotten many scomp complaints
> recently?...perhaps a big backlog of them that you/your abuse people
Someone in another thread did say that you were on a DSL line. AOL has
a published policy of blocking mail from residential broadband IPs.
That, combined with the fact that it is quite often rather tough to tell
where an ISP's dynamic / residential pool ends and where its static IP
DSL pool begins, might well make AOL cast their net a bit wider than
they intend.
Call the number they give at http://postmaster.info.aol.com and ask them
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