Hi slug,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 12:08 PM, you mentioned about "ATT Broadband
connections problems":
s> Att works for me with Mercury, but AOL will not.
Does not surprise me at all. AOL does not do anything standard. <g>
s> I got the IP address of the nameserver on my PC with ATT by
s> using IPConfig/ALL in the command prompt window (Win 2000) - they may
s> change over time so I may have to re-enter. But you are right, not
s> very usefull for me -maybe I'll think of some reason this method
s> of mail delivery would be preferable later.
Well, if you are on the road a lot, try www.myrealbox.com Just open up an
account, add the SMPT and POP3 stuff into the bat, and you are off and
running. You can use this with any ISP you log onto and send mail and
receive mail from TB! .. Bingo, you have a nice mail account.
s> But with AOL on my portable computer for traveling with Win 98 (ugh).
s> I (and helpers) did a Whois search and came up with IP addresses of
s> the nameservers but still got a message back from the server of "We do
s> not relay non-local mail - sorry"
It will never work with AOL.
s> Incidentally, what and exactly how does one do a Whois search - I sort
s> of muddled through Google and went to a site where I entered AOL.com,
s> but is this really the way?
You can use www.betterwhois.com to search all domain registers.
In Linux, I just use the command line and do a "dig" or "host", or whois
command.. I can actually use their DNS servers directly to get this
info....doing a "dig" and mx I get the following:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx aol.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25764
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 18
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aol.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
aol.com. 2811 IN MX 15 mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 2811 IN MX 15 mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 2811 IN MX 15 mailin-04.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 2811 IN MX 15 mailin-01.mx.aol.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aol.com. 760 IN NS dns-06.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 760 IN NS dns-07.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 760 IN NS dns-01.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 760 IN NS dns-02.ns.aol.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mailin-02.mx.aol.com. 120 IN A 64.12.137.184
mailin-02.mx.aol.com. 120 IN A 64.12.136.89
mailin-02.mx.aol.com. 120 IN A 64.12.136.121
mailin-02.mx.aol.com. 120 IN A 64.12.137.89
mailin-03.mx.aol.com. 118 IN A 64.12.136.249
mailin-03.mx.aol.com. 118 IN A 64.12.137.121
mailin-03.mx.aol.com. 118 IN A 64.12.137.152
mailin-03.mx.aol.com. 118 IN A 205.188.158.25
mailin-03.mx.aol.com. 118 IN A 64.12.136.217
mailin-04.mx.aol.com. 136 IN A 152.163.224.122
mailin-04.mx.aol.com. 136 IN A 64.12.136.153
mailin-04.mx.aol.com. 136 IN A 64.12.137.121
mailin-04.mx.aol.com. 136 IN A 64.12.137.152
mailin-01.mx.aol.com. 234 IN A 64.12.137.89
mailin-01.mx.aol.com. 234 IN A 64.12.137.184
mailin-01.mx.aol.com. 234 IN A 152.163.224.26
mailin-01.mx.aol.com. 234 IN A 64.12.136.57
mailin-01.mx.aol.com. 234 IN A 205.188.156.122
;; Query time: 110 msec
As you can see, AOL has many mx (mail servers), but they are clustered.
s> I feel like I've taken a IT course since yesterday - finally figuring
s> out what some of these things are - nameservers, DNS, Dynamic
s> something or other - where the IP address is chosen as you go...
LOL, yes I can see that. That's only the beginning... now to actually set
up all these things...... (just kidding).
s> Thanks.
My pleasure, it is fun..
--
Best regards,
Gary
Today's thought: I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
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