Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:23:12 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Peter Lockhart <peter@key.co.za>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A records on mail domain Message-ID: <20000613162312.A76235@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006131109370.30389-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:16:39AM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10006131649160.15191-100000@tigger.key.co.za> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006131109370.30389-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:16:39AM -0400, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter Lockhart wrote: > > : They claim its an RFC requirement. > > Hmm, I'd like to see a pointer to this. Most SLD's don't have a A record > for the domain, just a MX record - that's very common practice at least in > my experience. Ask them which RFC. Any chance they could be talking about the machine sending mail rather than the domain? I've seen some mailservers refuse a connection when the person sending doesn't have matching forward and reverse DNS (eg freebsd.org :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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