[NSRCA-discussion] Road Runner e-mail delivery problems

[Ken Thompson]

Tom,

I'm on Road Runner and not getting any error messages, with my outgoing or 
incoming...what ever problem exists it appears to be isolated to the east 
coast.

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Simes" <simestd at netexpress.com>
To: "NSRCA discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Road Runner e-mail delivery problems


>
> For those on rr.com (who can't get this e-mail, but may be following via
> the web archives), I've opened ticket ID [security.rr.com #55518] with
> them to investigate why their mail servers are deferring mail delivery
> from the NSRCA list server to RR customers.  For those familiar with
> e-mail and SPAM control at the ISP level, the list server isn't on any
> DNS RBL lists or anything like that.  The problem is that for some
> reason the RR.com mail servers cannot resolve the list server IP address
> back to a hostname so they are refusing to accept e-mail.
>
> Looking at the logs, the problem started early yesterday morning (Oct.
> 22nd).  The failures look like this:
>
> $ telnet 75.180.132.244 25
> Trying 75.180.132.244...
> Connected to cdptpa-smtpin02.mail.rr.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 421 4.7.1 - Connection Refused.  Cannot resolve PTR record for
> 209.112.194.3 Connection closed by foreign host.
> $
>
> Tom
>
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>
> Tom Simes                                       simestd at netexpress.com
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