On 21 Oct 2002 21:11:25 -0400, Ryan Camick wrote: > Did I do something wrong in getting this test to work? I swear I > tried this 10 minutes ago and it did *not* work, as expected from > everyone else's results. Did something A) get fixed while I was > testing or B) am I on glue, or C) are there multiple hosts answering > at 66.187.233.31(just a thought)? > > I found the original test in scrollback, everything looks the same. > Some editing of my information to keep it out of the search engines. > > [ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ telnet mx1.redhat.com smtp > Trying 66.187.233.31... > Connected to mx1.redhat.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 > **************************************************2******2002*20*2***0 > *0*00 > helo vanessa.endless.eu.org > 250 mx1.redhat.com Hello foobar@my.real.reverse.domain [24.x.x.234] > (may be forged), pleased to meet you > MAIL FROM: test@dsl.pipex.com > 550 5.0.0 test@dsl.pipex.com... You msut use a valid mail server > MAIL FROM: ryan at endless dot eu.org > 250 2.1.0 ryan at endless dot eu.org... Sender ok > quit > 221 2.0.0 mx1.redhat.com closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > 10 minutes passes .. host -a a bunch of domains .. > > > [ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ telnet mx1.redhat.com smtp > Trying 66.187.233.31... > Connected to mx1.redhat.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 > **************************************************2******2002*20***** > ***0*00 helo vanessa.endless.eu.org > 250 mx1.redhat.com Hello foobar@my.real.reverse.domain [24.x.x.234] > (may be forged), pleased to meet you > MAIL FROM: test@dsl.pipex.net > 250 2.1.0 test@dsl.pipex.net... Sender ok > quit > 221 2.0.0 mx1.redhat.com closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. Above you tested dsl.pipex.com (the non-working address). Below you tested dsl.pipex.net, which works. It might be that dsl.pipex.com is on some anti-spam blacklist at Red Hat, because I don't see much of a difference between DNS information for dsl.pipex.net and dsl.pipex.com (except that the latter uses very small TTLs). --
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