Re: [Exim] Inbound Hosts without valid rDNS

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Subject: Re: [Exim] Inbound Hosts without valid rDNS
[ On Monday, December 29, 2003 at 19:07:47 (-0500), Wakko Warner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Inbound Hosts without valid rDNS
>
> I feel every IP used should have an rDNS and a corresponding DNS.


Good.

> I am not
> saying that the hostname of the server has to be this same DNS name. I'm
> only saying:
> 1.2.3.4 -> blah.dom
> blah.dom -> 1.2.3.4
>
> and the mail server could be using mail.someotherdomain.lan with ip 1.2.3.4


That's pretty damn useless.

Broken reverse DNS is worse than no reverse DNS at all.

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