Eli wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing something. Can I take one of my IP addresses and make
>> the RDNS appear to be from xxx.amd.com and make a lookup on xxx.amd.com
>> agree?
> 
> Yes you can.  That's why reverse DNS information is pretty much completely 
> useless when doing any type of tracing.  I suggest you read up on DNS 
> servers and how zonefiles work et al before going too far on speculations 
> regarding DNS, especially if you're using the results to filter stuff (email 
> in this case).
> 

I think that if an host HELOes mail.domain.tld, rDNS is mail.domain.tld
and A record for mail.domain.tld gives the good IP and rDNS is not a
generic one, then you can probably trust the DNS info. But that still
does not mean that the host only sends ham.

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