Hotmail blackholing certain IP ranges ?

Wed Apr 25 18:43:27 UTC 2007

Jeroen,

A quick check of those IPs shows that most don't have rDNS records.  Make sure the A and PTR records for the mail server match the hostname it is using in the outbound SMTP session.

Hope that helps,
Adam Stasiniewicz

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From: owner-nanog at merit.edu on behalf of Jeroen Wunnink
Sent: Wed 4/25/2007 1:22 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Hotmail blackholing certain IP ranges ?

Does anyone have a clue why hotmail is appearantly blocking certain IP ranges ?

I provided a new server for a customer in his own IP subnet which is
a part of a /20 we announce, but for some reason all mail sent to
@hotmail.com addresses disappears.

He has another server in a /24 we announce which is still part of
another network and that works like a charm.

None of our subnets are blacklisted in any spamfilter I can find, so
i'm a bit puzzeled on what's up here.

If any hotmail netadmin is reading this list, can you please check if
81.26.212.0/26 is blocked in any way (It's part of 81.26.208.0/20
originating from AS39556)

According to the mailserver logs all the mail is properly accepted by
the hotmail relays, never to be seen again after that.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jeroen Wunnink,
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