[cobalt-users] Is this a viable solution to the No mail to AOL problem

["Paul Alcock" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
after hitting my head loudly when I figured out this solution
to the problem of not being able to send mail to AOL from my PC
through my RAQ2, I wonder if it is the only solution or if there
are others.

If I tried to send email to AOL, it would get returned
with an mgs that it was undeliverable.

The msg was....

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailin-02.mx.aol.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<myemailaddress goes here>
<<< 550 REQUESTED ACTION NOT TAKEN: DNS FAILURE
554 <recipientsemail@xxxxxxx>... Service unavailable

.... end of msg.
I looked at the the attachment to the returned email

>>>
Reporting-MTA: dns; myhostfdq goes here
Received-From-MTA: DNS; [my pc ip address goes here]
Arrival-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:27:04 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; therecipientsemail@xxxxxxx
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; mailin-02.mx.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 REQUESTED ACTION NOT TAKEN: DNS FAILURE
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:27:44 -0500
<<<<

So it appears that AOL is trying to do a reverse lookup on
my PC's IP to confirm that the result points to my RAQ2's FQD.

To overcome this problem I did the following.