[nycbug-talk] problem with dns ptr

marco at metm.org marco
Tue Sep 28 13:34:18 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:24:55PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>I thought I had this all figured out, but....
>
>can someone tell me what's wrong with my ptr records? mail I send should
>come from 65.84.93.74 and have a ptr resolve to the helo, iuxta.com.
>
>My tests (and smtpd) shows it works but others aren't resolving it, eg
>the nycbug list
>
>Received: from iuxta.com (unknown [65.84.93.74])
>        by virtu.nyphp.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0DE4A85E9
>        for <talk at lists.nycbug.org>; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:12:58 -0400 (EDT)

I believe this is a reverse dns problem.  Usually you have to ask your
ISP to change that for you, (at least I did).
Not something you can do yourself.  If you are the ISP I can't help
you...

-- 
Marco




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