Hi Jeff, On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:39:35AM -0600, Jeffrey Clement wrote: > > 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? >
In my experience, the problems of mismatched forward & reverse DNS are very few. I've been operating this way for years, and only a couple of times was mail rejected on this grounds. Its not a popular feature to enable. Best, Brent -- http://oss.netmojo.ca/
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