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

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Paul Alcock wrote:
> 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.
> 
<snip>
> 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.
> From the GUI DNS manager
> I added a PTR record from my IP pointing to the Server FQD
> eg. 123.123.12.123/24 -> myserverFQD
> 
> And Guess what, It works!
> I can now send (first time since setting up my raq :(
> email to aol without hesitation.
> 
> 
> So my question is....
> Is it safe to do this?
> 
Of course you can do this, I don't know if your IP block is actually delegated
to you, but someone should be doing reverse. BTW there are more & more smtp
servers that will refuse to handle email if reverse doesn't work.
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Gerald Waugh
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