On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    Not the Web server's IP address. That's at my ISP and is static. Only the
> MX address is dynamic.
>

The idea is that the grass.osgeo.org webserver is looking up the PTR
record for the external IP address  of the machine that is running
your web browser.
In your case it is the same as your MX address.

host mail.appl-ecosys.com
mail.appl-ecosys.com has address 50.38.89.212

dig -x 50.38.89.212

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-4-Debian <<>> -x 50.38.89.212
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 48866
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;212.89.38.50.in-addr.arpa.     IN      PTR

;; Query time: 543 msec
;; SERVER: 172.30.42.1#53(172.30.42.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 18 09:39:20 PDT 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 54

Which shows no PTR record.

Bill
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