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From: Allen Wisor
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 8:42 AM
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
Subject: Re: Mail to aol.com
Although mail does not go quick, it allways gets there in a 30 min.
or so. I have not had any of the problems decribed here.
FYI I use NTMail NT4.0sp3 and FBLI's DNS.
James M. Cook wrote:
>
> But it CAN'T be AOL's fault! This is the perpetual cry from our
> customers. Unfortunately, we have a growing number of customers who
> use their Internet connection primarily to access AOL so now we're
> supposed to support their software as well. :( This access via your
> ISP method must be those modem upgrades I keep hearing about in their
> advertising. Anyway, that's my $.02
> _______________________________________________________________
> INTERWEBB COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
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>
> ----------
> > From: Gregory W. Bondy <gbondy@MAELSTROM.NET>
> > To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
> > Subject: Re: Mail to aol.com
> > Date: Monday, June 16, 1997 8:15 PM
> >
> > I am reminded of a line from the Star Trek movie "Undiscovered
> Country"...
> >
> > spock: "But they're dying!"
> > kirk: "Let them die."
> >
> > *climbs onto his soapbox*
> >
> > It is not the rest of our jobs to "fix" AOL's screwups. It is not
> for us
> > to make elegant workarounds so our users, with whom we all spend a
> great
> > deal of time, money, and effort supporting in the first place, can
> send
> > mail to this den of iniquity that is america online.
> >
> > *steps off soapbox*
> >
> > On our system, if mail from AOL bounces, it's sent to /dev/null and
> > forgotten about. "Just one of those things". If AOL can't get
> their sh*t
> > together, and FAST, they'll be a forgotton bad dream in a year.
> Just hold
> > on. :)
> >
> > My two cents.
> >
> > At 05:44 PM 6/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
> > >The AOL mail deal used to be a problem with me. I'm not a DNS guru
> by any
> > >means, but I was told by several that AOL returns truncated DNS
> entries.
> > >What this looks like: I don't know. But I do know that it screwed
> up my
> > >mail for quite a while until an update for my SMTP server came out
> > >addressing the AOL issue.
> > >
> > >QUICK FIX: (Tested and used by me previously: unknown if this will
> work
> > >now). Some SMTP servers have trouble handling AOL's truncated
> returns.
> > >Solution: Create an AOL.COM DNS zone hosted on your own system. Do
> a
> > >dig/nslookup & find some of AOL's lower priority (higher numbered)
> mail
> > >machines, and create a couple MX records in your local AOL.COM zone
> > >pointing to those IP addresses. Now you won't have to rely on
> AOL's
> > >screwed up DNS returns. AOL mail lookups will be local on your
> system.
> > >Please don't ask me how to create a new DNS zone on your server - I
> won't
> > >know what to tell you. Be advised that this will most likely
> affect users'
> > >ability to visit AOL websites.
> > >
> > >Eric
> > >mailserve@pdqnet.net
> > >
> > >----------
> > >> From: John Lange <microjl@palacenet.net>
> > >> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
> > >> Subject: Re: Mail to aol.com
> > >> Date: Monday, June 16, 1997 4:38 PM
> > >>
> > >> Don't forget the inherent problems caused by their backbone
> provider
> > >> Sprint(missing)Link.
> > >>
> > >> JOhn :}
> > >>
> > >> > >Does anyone else have trouble getting mail to aol.com?
> > >> >
> > >> > we've had all sort of problems with email and web traffic to
> aol.com,
> > >> > ostensibly because of they high level of traffic they are(n't)
> > >> handling...
> > >> >
> > >> > so far, none of our customers have whined too loudly...
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> John C. Lange, Sr. PALACE dot NET, INC.
> > >> microjl@palacenet.net MICRO-TECH Computers!
> > >> 608.742.1601 & 6980 2800 New Pinery Road, Suite 10
> > >> http://www.palacenet.net/ Portage, WI 53901
> > >> http://www.microt.com/
> > >>
> > >> --- __o
> > >> --- _-\<,_ FASTEST SERVICE IN TOWN
> > >> --- (_)/ (_)
> > >>
> > >> ----------
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------
> > >> NTISP Mailing List listserver@emerald.iea.com
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > NTISP Mailing List listserver@emerald.iea.com
> > >
> > >
> >
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> > NTISP Mailing List listserver@emerald.iea.com
--Allen WisorAllen@nova1.netNova Internet Services, Inc.Ph(214)904-9600 Fx(214)357-1431---------------------------------------------------------- NTISP Mailing List listserver@emerald.iea.com
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