[svlug] Funny ???

[kevin@ank.com]

Hi Drew,

You can resolve that easily enough by defining a smart host forwarder
in your sendmail configuration that is the mailer your ISP gave you
to use.  Personally I haven't run into the problem yet, but several
of the larger ISP's have started doing similar things to avoid spam 
coming from dialup IP's.  This way ISPs can stem the flow of spam at 
its source.

Why your ISP wouldn't set up a valid reverse lookup for their subnet
though I can't imagine.  

Cheers,
-kls

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:26:14AM +0000, Drew Bertola wrote:
> I am not getting text messages from the server xrentdvd.com.  They are
> sitting in the mail queue with this complaint:
> 
> # mailq
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> 65AEB78D5       320 Thu Mar  8 11:44:37  root at xrentdvd.com
> (host mta01.cdpd.airdata.com[199.88.234.33] refused to talk to me: 421
> Service not available, closing transmission channel)
>                                          4088870426 at mobile.att.net
> 
> 
> I contacted AT&T Wireless and told them about this, they took the
> information to pass on to a network person.  Two days later, the
> network person passed on a response which their customer service
> passed on to me.  Here it is:
> 
> --------------- Explanation from ATT Wireless ------------------
> 
> The IP of 37.24.164.209 must be defined w/ an address which matches
> what is associated with 209.164.24.37.
> 
> The IP address in question is not defined for a reverse DNS in their
> dns server.  This needs to be done in order for our message center to
> accept the message.
> 
> When the reverse dns comes back invalid our system does not allow the
> message to go through.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This seems completely ludicrous.  Funny, isn't it?
> 
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