You got me, I pasted 4.1.3 Address Literals ... For IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal integers separated by dots and enclosed by brackets such as [123.255.37.2],
Into every one of my repies, and sent them the Urls to read the RFC themselves. Some people are so stubborn. They are still blocked, havnt pulled logs to see if they finally updated to send the brackets or not. They said things like "millions of subscribers and you are the only one with a problem" and "our system doesn't support what you've asked us to do" Oh, here's my favorite quote from the thread... IDIOT> 3) A CM change of this nature would be far reaching in scope and IDIOT> although it may resolve this issue it may negatively impact other IDIOT> clients who are not currently experiencing any problems. ME> It is unlikely that adhering to RFC will have a negative ME> impact on your other clients. Most likely it will have a positive impact ME> and result in less white-rules having to be created by other administrators. OH, they even tried to say they were sending a FQDN/literal as helo... > Our current form: > (M1VE02.jda001.net[198.64.149.39]) > is in compliance with the RFC "an address literal SHOULD be > substituted for the domain name and supplemental information > provided that will assist in identifying the client". They quoted the REVDNS line out of the logs I SENT THEM. Didn't even notice the last part of the line was: > proto=SMTP helo=<198.64.149.39> Its amazing the level of incompetence of some 'mail admins' -----Original Message----- From: Rod Dorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] Re: Subscriber_networks - practices On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 16:44:50, Tom Baker|Netsmith Inc wrote: > ... > What brings this up is I spent half the day arguing with some list > provider because their HELO is an IP address, and is not ip-literal as > the RFC asks. I kept quoting the RFC and they said they believed they were following and > would not change. ... === begin snipits of RFC 2821 === address-literal = "[" IPv4-address-literal / IPv6-address-literal / General-address-literal "]" ; See section 4.1.3 4.1.3 Address Literals ... For IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal integers separated by dots and enclosed by brackets such as [123.255.37.2], IPv4-address-literal = Snum 3("." Snum) Snum = 1*3DIGIT ; representing a decimal integer ; value in the range 0 through 255 === end snipits === What part don't they comprehend? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *WARNING* Rod Dorman Do not stare into laser with remaining eye.
