[92657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Mon Oct 2 13:54:47 2006
In-Reply-To: <1b5c1c150610021035oeb953dbvb3443081754cd52a@mail.gmail.com>
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:52:28 -0700
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Mike Lyon wrote:
>
> Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail
> to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse
> lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's
> postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL:
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html
>
> This has to be new policty for them because it never rejected them
> before...
That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a
virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of
the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to
look like Atriks, doofus.").
Do you have some data suggesting that this is actually happening?
Cheers,
Steve
