On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 10:46:54, Troy Hilton wrote:
> Need some direction here. I've got a domain called sofmail.com that we use
> for our Small Business Server 2003. I've got a user who gets a "550 Invalid
> domain sofmail.com" error when sending to several external accounts. My
> concern is that the DNS host (MCI) didn't setup the reverse DNS correctly.
> Being that I'm not a DNS guru I was hoping perhaps someone could shed some
> light on what's pointing where. I'm thinking that the recipient's mail
> server is doing a reverse lookup for sofmail.com and can't find it. I think
> MCI created a PTR for mail.sofmail.com. What should it be?

Both sofmail.com and mail.sofmail.com resolve to 208.255.176.24

208.255.176.24 reverses to sofmail.com

A better choice may be to change the PTR to return mail.sofmail.com

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