[ale] AT&T blocked

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed February 18 2009, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 72.52.240.41 will be blocked by all sensible email admins (google
> excluded as they accept pretty much anything and shove it into spam).
> The problem with 72.52.240.41 is that it has a PTR for a host that
> doesn't have an A record.
>
> ~$ host 72.52.240.4
> 4.240.52.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host.wholesalechandeliers.com.
> ~$ host host.wholesalechandeliers.com
> Host host.wholesalechandeliers.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

# host 72.52.240.41
Name: liquid1.wznoc.com
Address: 72.52.240.41

did you leave off the last "1" in the "41" on purpose?

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Paul Cartwright
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