Re: aol rejects mailing lists?

["J.F. Noonan" <jfn () msc com>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Hmm, that shouldn't come as a surprise since it isn't even
> listed as an MX:
>
> [andy@home:mail andy]$ dnsmx aol.com
> 15 mailin-01.mx.aol.com
> 15 mailin-02.mx.aol.com
> 15 mailin-03.mx.aol.com
> 15 mailin-04.mx.aol.com
>
> In addition, unless you have some special routes, I'm not even sure how
> you are getting anywhere with that name:
>
> [andy@home:mail andy]$ dnsip air-yh04.mail.aol.com
> 172.18.147.41
>
> Which is clearly a private class address as defined by RFC
> 1918.  Probably a big no-no publishing private addresses in
> your public DNS, but this is AOL we're talking about, right?
> :-)


Arrgh! <self-lart>

<sheepish>
I grabbed the address out of the transaction log and tried it
without really thinking about it.  No, it's not really a surprise
as I filter 1918 addresses at my border.
</sheepish>

Anyway, someone else posted to that list containing the two AOL
addresses three hours ago, and I just sent one myself, and I've
had no bounces from either post yet.  Maybe it was just passing
brain damage, now healed.


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Joseph F. Noonan
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