Hi all, I've been wondering about switching from Telus to Nucleus for my DSL connection. I've always heard wonderful things of Nucleus and their service certainly sounds more interesting (16 IPs instead of 2 at Telus).
I do have one concern though. Telus will let you customize the reverse DNS for your static IPs. Nucleus will to but they charge $10/month/IP and that isn't even delegating it to your name servers. My questions is this: What consequences are there if I do not have reverse DNS pointing to my machine name? I know most internet services couldn't care less but some like SMTP might. I know some SMTP servers will reject mail from SMTP servers without a valid reverse lookup. Does it matter what this is? Does the reverse lookup need to match my SMTP greeting or is a reverse name like node123.nucleus.com OK for that sort of thing? Since my machines are hosting the CLUG mailing lists and e-mail I would rather not have other SMTP servers dropping messages from me. Jeff
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