[TriLUG] Verizon.net hates me

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Douglas Ward wrote:

> All e-mail sent from our domain to any verizon.net account is bounced with
> the following error:
>
> < mx.nccumc.org #5.0.0 X-Mail-Agent; host relay.verizon.net[206.46.232.11]
> said: 550    You are not allowed to send mail:sv15pub.verizon.net (in reply
> to MAIL FROM    command)>

One of verizon's relays was misconfigured for about a week 
(15th-21 Sept ie last week). It gave 421 replies when my 
mailserver checked the sender's address by doing a RCPT TO 
back to verizon's machine. Then one day someone must have 
looked at the logs and it started working again.

Here's the log

Sep 21 05:42:49 wm7d postfix/smtp[29447]: 6F2D8F6596: to=<xxxxxx at verizon.net>, 
relay=relay.verizon.net[206.46.232.11]:25, delay=39, delays=0.01/0.01/0.2/39,
dsn=4.0.0, status=undeliverable (host relay.verizon.net[206.46.232.11] said: 421 
sv19pub.verizon.net terminating connection (in reply to RCPT TO command))

(username changed to xxxxxx)

Whadaya know. It's the same machine!

I don't know who to call, but I had a lot of trouble finding 
someone at Verizon to help me setup my DSL modem about a 
year ago so it would let packets straight through and my 
router did the dhcp call. Everyone said that wasn't 
technically possible. Eventually I found the right person, 
who just read me the instructions - he said that verizon had 
people reconfigure their modems all the time.



Joe

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