From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 13 8:23:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE33D37BEB1 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA76393; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:23:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:23:12 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Peter Lockhart , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A records on mail domain Message-ID: <20000613162312.A76235@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:16:39AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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