[92659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Oct 2 14:33:08 2006
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1b5c1c150610021035oeb953dbvb3443081754cd52a@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Anybody more familiar with setup at AOL - is this true?
If so you're going to do disservice to the community as in practice
this will cause lots of places to go to per-ip virtual hosting and
more ip usage from hosting companies like it was 5-7 years ago when
browsers did not yet support HTTP/1.1
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, 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...
>
> Ugh.
>
> -Mike
