[thelist] mail server problems

Brian Cummiskey brian at hondaswap.com
Thu Aug 2 00:38:30 CDT 2007


Josh/Rich/Anthony:

Thanks for the replies.   I think i have an idea of what's happening now.

Joshua Olson wrote:
>  Simply stated, this information is controlled at the
> host, not by you.  You should contact your host and ask then to set up the
> Reverse DNS pointer for your server's public IP address.  Unless they are
> incompetent, they should be able to do this.
>   
My server is dedicated, so I guess I am the ISP :)

I ran the tool at my provider, softlayer.com, and it gives the following 
results:


  208.101.57.188         86400    IN ptr   208.101.57.188-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
   208.101.57.189         86400    IN ptr   208.101.57.189-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
   208.101.57.190         86400    IN ptr   208.101.57.190-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
   208.101.57.191         86400    IN ptr   208.101.57.191-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
   208.101.58.177(Gateway)      86400    IN ptr   208.101.58.177-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
   208.101.58.178         86400    IN ptr   208.101.58.178-static.reverse.softlayer.com.


and all have a TTL of 1 day

57.188 is the site in question's IP


So, i have an RDNS record already, no?



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