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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: > > [[email protected]: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: > > [[email protected]: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. -- Joseph F. Noonan Systems Manager Rigaku/MSC [email protected] http://www.RigakuMSC.com/
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