AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at outblaze.com
Wed Dec 3 16:47:10 UTC 2003


Pete Ehlke  writes on 12/3/2003 11:38 AM:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:28:19AM -0500, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
>>ps - there's of course the rather umm... interesting content below ;)
>>http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/avoid-rfc-2317-delegation.html
>>
> 
> Which is totally, completely wrong and causes, in both cases, servers to
> leak name space (which causes cache poisoning) and, in once case,
> servers to potentially be marked as lame. The man is flat out wrong.
> Don't follow his advice.

The ;) smiley and that "umm..." before the "interesting" were added for 
precisely that reason.  Sorry if I was not too clear.

And there should be an "as usual" after your "flat out wrong", I think.

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