Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:01:06 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Andrew J Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD mailing lists rejecting my message, again... Message-ID: <002e01c12e72$390590a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010826165650.B441@hal9000.servehttp.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew J Caines > >I have yet to see an ISP who offers dynamic reverse DNS for their IP >blocks. For that matter I have yet to see an ISP offer DDNS at all. The >ISP will own the reverse domain and will map your IP to something like >Obviously, only your ISP can practically do reverse DDNS. > However there's plenty of ISP's that will assign static IP numbers and put in PTR records to them. >The fact that I can post and my forward and reverse names are different >seems to imply that maybe just having a reverse entry suffices. > >I trust that the data shows that this restriction has sufficient benefit >to justify excluding users who through no fault of their own don't have a >PTR. > If they are unable to work with their ISP to get the problem corrected then perhaps they should blame the ISP who is the real cause of the problem. Valid PTR records are needed for other things than just sending mail, you know. They are part of the standard for a reason. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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