I am guessing that he is looking at the SMTP log files and he is guessing that from the greeting he is having problems - if indeed there really aren't any. On Friday I received a greeting that said I was being blocked and then was disconnected with a 550. I called AOL and after about 20 minutes and after getting to a Level 3 engineer - they told me Ooops. We have been having troubles our bad.
www.DNSReport.com shows you have serious issues here with the DNS setup. http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=tommydew.com AOL shows there is RNDS for 207.212.194.225. http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/rdns.html My guess is that the RDNS is fine. Everything else is hosed. Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Brumm > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Reverse dns issue > > I have a colocation customer who is reporting RDNS problems with AOL from > one of his domains (mail.tommydew.com). > He runs his own (Merek) email server and does his own forward DNS and we > do > the RDNS since he uses our IPs. > We have no other customers complaining and I have sent test messages to > AOL > customers without any problem. > Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this resolved (no pun > intended). Here is a copy of the customers report > and there is a log excerpt attached.. > > Thanks, > > Gary > > > > > > >It appears that it is a reverse dns problem. I have attached log files > >from my mail server. Once the server is connected to aol's mail server, > >aol's mail server responds back that there is no reverse dns. Please let > >me know what pbi says. I have clients breathing down my neck about not > >being able to send email to aol. > > > >Paul > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Gary Brumm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:11 AM > >To: Paul Spagnola > >Subject: Re: reverse dns issue > > > >Hi Paul, > > > > Here's what I get: > >Asking h.root-servers.net for 225.194.212.207.in-addr.arpa PTR > >record: > > h.root-servers.net says to go to > >figwort.arin.net. (zone: 207.in-addr.arpa.) > >Asking figwort.arin.net. for 225.194.212.207.in-addr.arpa PTR > >record: > > figwort.arin.net [192.42.93.32] says > >to go to ns1.pbi.net. (zone: 212.207.in-addr.arpa.) > >Asking ns1.pbi.net. for 225.194.212.207.in-addr.arpa PTR record: > > ns1.pbi.net [206.13.28.11] says to > >go to ns1.comsec.net. (zone: 194.212.207.in-addr.arpa.) > >Asking ns1.comsec.net. for 225.194.212.207.in-addr.arpa PTR record: > >Reports mail.tommydew.com. [from 207.212.96.4] > > > >Answer: > >207.212.194.225 PTR record: mail.tommydew.com. [TTL 86400s] > >[A=207.212.194.225] > > > > >>>This is correct<<< > > > >However on a DNS traversal I get: > > > >Results from ns1.comsec.net do not match results from ns1.pbi.net. > >Results from ns1.comsec.net do not match results from ns2.pbi.net. > > > >There should be no RDNS records on the pbi.net DNS machines since > >ns1.comsec.net & livewire.comsec.net have been delegated authority > >for my subnets. I have checked resolution using several outside DNS > >servers and it has resolved your email server correctly. If you have a > >copy of the AOL rejection message please forward it to me. I will > >contact PBI to follow up. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Gary > > > > > >At 04:44 AM 3/1/2005, you wrote: > > > > > >Gary, > > > > On one of my mail servers, I am getting rejected email from > >aol because of no reverse dns (ptr record). And it appears that you have > >livewire.comsec.net, ns1.comsec.net, ns1.pbi.net and ns2.pbi.net listed > >as dns servers for 207.212.194 class c. comsec.net servers respond > >correctly for the ip. But the dns servers on pbi's side respond > >incorrectly. I do not know if the replication between your servers and > >pbi have stopped, but please let me know what you find as I need to > >resolve this issue. Attached below is a report of the mismatching info. > >Please let me know the status of this info. > > > >Paul Spagnola > > > > > >DNS Traversal for 225.194.212.207.in-addr.arpa. > > > > > >Generated by www.DNSstuff.com <http://www.dnsstuff.com/> < > >http://www.DNSstuff.com <http://www.dnsstuff.com/> > > > > > > > > >Getting NS record list at d.root-servers.net... Done! > >Looking up at the 7 207.in-addr.arpa. parent servers: > >Server > >Response > >Time > >chia.arin.net [192.5.6.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >108ms > >dill.arin.net [192.35.51.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >108ms > >henna.arin.net [192.26.92.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >108ms > >indigo.arin.net [192.31.80.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >108ms > >epazote.arin.net [192.41.162.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >109ms > >figwort.arin.net [192.42.93.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >109ms > >basil.arin.net [192.55.83.32] > >ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >310ms > > > >Status: Records all match. > > > >Looking up at the 2 212.207.in-addr.arpa. parent servers: > >Server > >Response > >Time > >ns2.pbi.net [206.13.29.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >109ms > >ns1.pbi.net [206.13.28.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >207ms > > > >Status: Records all match. > > > >Looking up at the 4 194.212.207.in-addr.arpa. parent servers: > >Server > >Response > >Time > >livewire.comsec.net [207.212.96.10] > >mail.tommydew.com. > >214ms > >ns1.comsec.net [207.212.96.4] > >mail.tommydew.com. > >214ms > >ns1.pbi.net [206.13.28.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >214ms > >ns2.pbi.net [206.13.29.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >214ms > > > >Status: Records DO NOT all match: Results from ns1.comsec.net do not > >match results from ns2.pbi.net. > > > >Looking up at the 4 194.212.207.in-addr.arpa. parent servers: > >Server > >Response > >Time > >ns1.pbi.net [206.13.28.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >112ms > >ns2.pbi.net [206.13.29.11] > >livewire.comsec.net. ns1.comsec.net. ns1.pbi.net. ns2.pbi.net. > >112ms > >livewire.comsec.net [207.212.96.10] > >mail.tommydew.com. > >210ms > >ns1.comsec.net [207.212.96.4] > >mail.tommydew.com. > >210ms > > > >Status: Records DO NOT all match: Results from ns2.pbi.net do not match > >results from ns1.comsec.net. > > _____ > > > > > >(C) Copyright 2000-2005 R. 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