* [Greg Ward on 13/08/01 12:58 -0400]
> My guess is that AOL doesn't like the fact that your IP address doesn't
> reverse-resolve to your claimed hostname. Anyone using a dialup, DSL,
> or cable-modem connection has the same problem. (AFAIK ISPs haven't yet
Most rDNS checks only check for the _presence_ of rDNS. Not the fact that it
must reverse-resolve to match the forward DNS. Attempting to check a forward /
inverse DNS match would break more than geeks running off cablemodem / DSL
lines ...
It'd break (for example) virtual hosting setups, where mail.foo.com,
mail.bar.com and several hundred domains all reverse-lookup to
colo231.foo-provider.com
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