> >For the first time in ages, we just got a call from someone 
> who cannot 
> >send us email.  His emails keep getting rejected by our 
> IMGate.  Did a 
> >grep for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and found three entries in my log:
> >...554 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, 
> >[65.54.247.110]; All 3 ips have no reverse DNS.
> 
> yep, that Class C seems pretty undone:
> 
> # dig -x 65.54.247.110 @dns.cp.msft.net.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -x @dns.cp.msft.net.
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 ;; 
> flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, 
> ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      110.247.54.65.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 247.54.65.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN SOA  dns.cp.msft.net. 
> msnhst.microsoft.com. (
>                                          2004041401      ; serial
>                                          30M             ; refresh
>                                          15M             ; retry
>                                          4W              ; expiry
>                                          1H )            ; minimum
> 
> >(I also checked the logs for the past 3 days, and this is the first 
> >valid hotmail.com user!  All the rest were zombies and spam!)
> 
> yep, typical
> 
> >Other than adding the ips to mta_clients_bw.map, what can I 
> do to let 
> >valid hotmail servers through?
> 
> that PTR + A check is done in mta_clients_bogus.map.  you 
> could remove hotmail from that file.
> 
> but whitelisting the MS-screwed up Class will probably let a 
> lot of spam from those IPs in.
> 
> Len

Well, the zombies frequently use our machine name, and a lot of the spam is
caught by the reject_rbl_client.

The hotmail servers do answer: helo hotmail.com 
Where is the rdns check done?


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