OT: Be sure your rDNS is in place...

[Bob Stockler]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:26:14AM -0400, Mark Luljak wrote:
| 
| Now what -has- gotten more stringent is that you used to be able to just
| have a PTR for your IP# that pointed to -any- valid hostname.  As long as
| it could be looked up, it was accepted.  I could set up a client site and
| make the PTR for an IP# point to any of their valid A record hostnames.
| Used to do that when masquerading.
| 
| This is no longer the case.  In the last year, software and institutions
| have increasingly clamped down on that, and you have to match the A and PTR
| records or it goes *poof*.

Apparently RapidSite is still going to be playing catch-up:

>      We kindly ask that each of your end users and other clients be made
> aware of the upcoming changes.  If any of your clients will be affected,
> correctly defining a PTR record for the IP address will solve any mail
> connection problems.  It does not matter what PTR record is established as
> long as there is a PTR record.  RapidSite is currently not concerned whether
> the 'A' record matches the PTR record.

Bob

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