[thelist] msn mail bouncing

[jeff]

djc,

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: From: Daniel J. Cody
:
: First stab at it: the IP address for
: mail2.alphashop.com doesn't resolve
: to anything, which most SMTP servers
: will interpert as a spammers SMTP
: server.
:
: [root at djc log]# host 207.189.150.220
: Host not found.
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odd.  it resolves on our primary dns server, but not our secondary.
apparently our primary was too taxed to respond.  so, the secondary dns
server has been updated so it should resolve now.

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: theres a couple other oddities with your DNS
: servers too
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like what, specifically?

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: [...] but the most likely cause is you don't
: have a PTR record for mail2.alphashop.com
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can you elaborate?

anybody else?

thanks,

.jeff

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