Re: Connection Filtering rejects all of the mail as on the Block list

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p.jones+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Jones) wrote:

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That DNS is broken. Try using another.

Not necessarily broken, just not returning the expected answer.

Oh, yeah. It's broken.

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Nothing. It's the DNS you're using that's different.

Earthlink has their DNS set up to resolve unknown requests to a
Earthlink (unknown requst)/search page. What the problem is, IP's that
resolve get filtered and ones that don't resolve go through. Since the
requests all returned requests, all of the mail was rejected.

One of the big registrars tried that crap years ago. It broke every
DNS RBL for a few weeks.

Just because the RFCs sometimes say you /can/ do something is no
reason to actually do it.

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Rich Matheisen
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