[75137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL tarpitting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Fri Nov 5 15:57:15 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L0.0411051423370.8790@c3po.easydns.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56:37 -0500
To: Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 2:26 PM -0500 11/5/04, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
>had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last
>few days?
One of the sites I run (hosted on cihost) recently started getting
bad SMTP responses from AOL. We worked around by routing AOL and
Compuserver mail through a gateway that cihost claims is "clean", but
we haven't been able to get a clear story on why our IPs were being
blocked, or how to unblock them. I had heard elsewhere that AOL is
cracking down on ISPs they feel aren't keeping clean, but I don't
know if that's related.
