Re: [Exim] Inbound Hosts without valid rDNS

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Author: Jeff Lasman
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Inbound Hosts without valid rDNS
On Monday 29 December 2003 05:07 pm, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> > 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.


This is NOT broken reverse DNS. It's reverse DNS pointing to the system
while forward DNS is set for a domain name hosted on the system.

And it's about all you can do if you've got multiple domains hosted on
the same IP#.

And no, I'm not trying to feed any troll, though I will repsond to
thoughtful replies.

Jeff
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