Re: [Exim] recently getting smtp errors from gmx

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Peter Bowyer wrote:

> Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> > Hi :/
> >
> > Damn, when comes the day I fully understand this DNS stuff :(
>
> The point you're missing is that your servers are not authoratative for the
> reverse zone which your IPs live in - your ISP is. You need to ask them to
> put in rDNS entries for you, or (less likely) delegate the zone to your name
> servers.
>
> (If you don't understand the basics here, don't go asking them to
> sub-delegate a CIDR rDNS zone to you. It'll have your brain in bits for
> weeks).

It seems that he already has the reverse DNS set up on his
own DNS servers, so all the ISP would have to do is to delegate
the IP addresses in question to those servers:

139.222.67.62.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns3.ludenkalle.de.
139.222.67.62.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns4.ludenkalle.de.

-aw