On 11/4/05, Sanjay Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, my domains don't provide reverse lookups, hence lots of > networks refuse my mail. > > Q: Who is required to provide reverse lookups...my own DNS server? or > does my ISP have to do something in this? like he had to provide an ARIN > entry so anyone looking up the IP can get my organization name! I mean I > would be adding new domains & sub-domains, so does their reverse > resolution have anything to do with the ISP? can't my DNS server handle > that? I actually don't understand delegation? especially for a single > IP/multiple domains? How its done & who does it in such a case.
Reverse DNS resolution does not work at the range of single public IP addresses. Here is what you need to do instead: 1. Give your machine a name that does not denote its function or its public face. Something like calvin.mydomain.com 2. Host your domains (mydomain.com, somethingelse.org, etc.) and subdomains (www.mydomain.com, mail.somethingelse.org, etc.) on this box. 3. Let DNS entries for www.mydomain.com be CNAMEs. 4. Ask your ISP to add a reverse DNS entry for your IP pointing it to calvin.mydomain.com 5. Configure your outgoing SMTP server to advertise itself as calvin.mydomain.com > Q: Whois lookup of my .in domain queries ncst whois server, which simply > does not respond. Is the NCST whois server having any problem? Or is it > some problem at my end? How do I find out? The whole .in domain management if fubared the moment. > PS: LIH list does not send my own mail to me, though replies come to me. > How do I change this behaviour? Go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help, log in using your subscribed email address and change preferences there. BTW, I see that you are using gmail. Gmail tries to be smart about this and does not show emails that one sends out till there is a reply to the email. Maybe that is your problem. Thaths -- "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer J. Simpson ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
