On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:30:33 +0000 Alan Cox said: First, I will get the PTR record setup, but probably not for a couple days. I have to deal with putting all my worldly possessions in storage tomorrow. As David alluded, we've made many significant changes network wise in the last several months, and this is one that slipped by. Our PTR records are not hand created, but are programatically created from A records, and the program doesn't seem to handle the multi-address that now exist.
>On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:49, John Summerfield wrote: >> > With all that said, it's still a bug that Marist has a system sending email >> > that doesn't have valid reverse DNS. >> >> Which RFC is it violating? > >It isnt violating any RFC > >> When I got my latest ADSL connection I insisted my IP address resolve; I >> didn't care a lot what it resolved too. However, I don't know it's >> mandatory. > >DNS itself is an add on to the internet. Also technically a mailer >should only deliver mail _to_ a host with an MX record, but I wouldnt >try enforcing that either 8) Actually, it is good practice to have the MX record, but it is allowed to not have one. /ahw
