thanks, i will look into that. any advice regarding postfix? bibhor
On 7/17/05, Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:17 -0600, bibhor dhungel wrote: > > hi, > > I just transferred the DNS for a company to another server (FedoraCore > > 3) and i have been playing with the postfix. one of the problems i am > > having is nslookup not working properly. For example when i type: > > "nslookup servername" i get the "correct ip". But when i type > > "nslookup ip.ip.ip.ip" i dont get the correct "servername". i heard > > that some of the servers (like aol) do a reverse lookup when receiving > > mail and then reject the email if these give two different results. > > Is there a way to change this? > > Lots of mail servers will do a reverse lookup. AOL is probably the most > notable one who will reject mail if it fails, so you're right to get > this set up properly. > > You need to contact the responsible party for your IP block. That will > likely be your network provider (also try 'whois <ip>'). They'll know > what you're talking about. > > Corey > > > > BodyID:9390069.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > > .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
