[olug] COX users and OLUG

[Brian Roberson]

roberson at users:~> for i in east west central ; do host -t PTR 216.40.17.98 ns.$i.cox.net; done
Using domain server:
Name: ns.east.cox.net
Address: 68.12.19.237#53
Aliases:

98.17.40.216.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer olug.org.
Using domain server:
Name: ns.west.cox.net
Address: 68.111.106.76#53
Aliases:

98.17.40.216.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer olug.org.
Using domain server:
Name: ns.central.cox.net
Address: 68.12.19.237#53
Aliases:

98.17.40.216.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer olug.org.
roberson at users:~> telnet mx.west.cox.net 25
Trying 68.6.19.3...
Connected to mx.west.cox.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
421 fed1mtai01.cox.net connection refused from [216.40.17.98]
Connection closed by foreign host.
roberson at users:~> telnet mx.east.cox.net 25
Trying 68.1.17.3...
Connected to mx.east.cox.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
421 lakemtai06.cox.net connection refused from [216.40.17.98]
Connection closed by foreign host.
roberson at users:~>




On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:13:46PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Brian Roberson wrote:
> 
> >Well, it looks like cox simply does not want to accept email from
> >olug.org - everyone with and @cox.net address was automatically
> >removed from the list due to:
> 
> Dude, your box @ Novia didn't have any reverse DNS entries for a LONG while.
> 
> Cox isn't the first, and won't be the last, ISP to reject mail from 
> hosts that don't have PTR RRs.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
> 
> 
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