SMTP problems from *.ipt.aol.com

E.B. Dreger eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Mon Jan 19 06:08:57 UTC 2004


SR> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:24:06 +0530
SR> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian


SR> AOL has, since the past several months (over a year I think)
SR> set up their dynamic IP pool *.ipt.aol.com to hijack port 25

I recall seeing this in November 2002, and believe it had already
been in place for a few months...


SR> outbound requests and reroute it through a set of their own
SR> mailservers, that do some elementary rate limiting and
SR> filtering.


Eddy
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