On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:16:01PM +0200, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> >That's a fantastic interpretation of 2821.
> >3.6:
> > - The domain name given in the EHLO command MUST BE either a
> > primary host name (a domain name that resolves to an A RR) or,
> > if the host has no name, an address literal as described in
> > section 4.1.1.1.
> >
> >It says nothing about resolving correctly as a PTR. In fact, that you
> >can give an address literal implies that IP addresses should not be
> >resolved back to a hostname.
>
> Greg hasn't mentioned or implied PTR records, indeed a "name"
> (hostname) does not have PTR records (with the exception of course of
> the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone).
Well, you can't look up an IP address to a hostname (reverse DNS)
unless it has a PTR record :-)
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