Re: (ngtrans) Re: The reverse lookup issue

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 01:01:07PM +0200, Jasminko.W.Mulahusic@telia.se wrote:
>  
> > > ISP's frequently don't give out any information on who the customer
> > > is. The inverse lookups are usually just the ip address encoded by a
> > > script that generates names from IP addresses.  As I said 
> > before, this is
> > > meaningless, and a waste of time, Nameserver memory, and bandwidth.
> > 
> > My home machine has proper reverse DNS.  This makes it easy
> > for people who are having a problem with it to contact me
> > directly instead of having to go through my ISP to find out
> > who I am.  I consider that a feature.  If I did not want that
> > level of accountability, I would have my ISP reset reverse DNS
> > to some generic default.
> 
> if my home machine does not have proper reverse dns, because my
> isp is not providing this service, can i still have a mail server
> (with domain, dns, etc) and be able to _actually_ send mail through
> that server? or, is all mail where reverse dns don't match treated
> as spam and filtered out.

I don't think many people are left who believe that reverse dns can
be used as a policy enforcement engine, but it can and should be used
for logging purposes.

(answer:  your mail gets through).

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