gmail.com - 550 error for ipv6/PTR ?

Wed Jan 15 20:57:05 UTC 2014

On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog at bitfreak.org> wrote:

> On 1/15/2014 10:14 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog at bitfreak.org
>> <mailto:nanog at bitfreak.org>>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 1/14/2014 4:06 PM, Brandon Applegate wrote:
>>>> Just saw this in a message tonight.  No idea if this is a transient error
>>>> or not.
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>
>>>> [gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
>>>> <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>][2607:f8b0:4002:c01::1a]
>>>>   said: 550-5.7.1 [2607:ff70:11::11] Our system has detected that this
>>>>   message does not 550-5.7.1 meet IPv6 sending guidelines regarding PTR
>>>>   records and authentication 550-5.7.1 . Please review 550-5.7.1
>>>> https://support.google.com/mail/?p=ipv6_authentication_error
>>>> [support.google.com <http://support.google.com>] for more 550
>>>>   5.7.1 information. t26si2290895yhl.255 - gsmtp (in reply to end of
>>>> DATA
>>>>   command)
>>> 
>>> I saw a number of these as well but in my case the bracketed IP
>>> addresses were malformed.  For example:
>>> 
>>> host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
>>> <http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com>[2607:f8b0:4002:c01::1a] said:
>>> 550-5.7.1 [2607:fc50:1000:1f00::2      16] Our system has detected
>>> that this 550-5.7.1 message does not meet IPv6 sending guidelines...
>>> 
>> 
>> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en#authentication
> 
> My point was that Google told me it rejected "2607:fc50:1000:1f00::2   16".  In this case, 2607:fc50:1000:1f00::2 is the correct address, but it appeared (to me) that Google's data was somehow corrupt.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the IPv6 address format doesn't allow spaces. ;)
> 

Ah yes, the confusion with the separator between IP and ports.

IPv4:port
IPv6.port

That gets a lot of regex confused...
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