Michael,
While you are right, in most cases they will either delegate or change
it. This is a bit trickier. I am using rack space that I am not paying
for, a friend has a quarter rack and is only using a 1U server. So I
don't know the contact person and really don't want to be a PITA right
off the bat.
They do in fact have rDNS setup. I guess then the question becomes,
does Spamdyke strictly enforce the rDNS entry matching origination? If
it does how do you set it up to only check if it has one whether it
matches or not to accept mail? The mail server that's rejecting the
mail is one of my own servers at my home location, so it may simply be
that I have the security too tight and need to adjust it accordingly.
CJ
Michael Colvin wrote:
Ummmm... They should be. The should do one or the other. If they won't
delegate the IP space to you so that you can create your own ptr for that
IP, then they should do it for you.
If they won't do either, it's likely because they don't know how to, which
means they likely don't know what they are doing, and I would run as fast as
you can to another colo.
I've never had a problem getting IP address that are assigned to me,
delegated to me.
Also, usually, most IP's simply need the PTR to resolve to SOMETHING. It
doesn't need to your mail server, per se, but it should resolve to
something...So, if they don't want to delegate it, they can at least create
a PTR for it that resolves to something.
You may also want to make sure that there is an a record for whatever they
do point it to. IE, if they use "mail.domain.com" as the PTR, make sure
that mail.domain.com resolves to something as well, even if the IP's don't
match.
Michael J. Colvin
NorCal Internet Services
www.norcalisp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Maxwell Smart [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: rdns
That's what I thought. I had this problem once before. I am not sure I
am going to be able to get the delegation this time. At my primary
location I have my own delegation and that works fine, but they may not
be so keen at this colocation.
Thanks for your insight.
CJ
Eric Shubert wrote:
The ISP, as owner of the IP address they've given you to use, controls
the rDNS entry. You need to get them to change it to your host name.
There are rare situations where an ISP might delegate rDNS entries to
a customer, but I wouldn't count on that. I've also heard of
situations where the customer can use a web app to change their rDNS
values. You'll need to contact your ISP and see how they handle it.
You can simply tell them what you want it to be, and they should
change it.
Maxwell Smart wrote:
OK I know that, but that doesn't resolve my problem. Without being
able to setup an rDNS entry for this IP address my server mail gets
rejected with a non matching rDNS entry. How is this resolved? I
can't be the only one that has a server at a co location facility
where I don't control the DNS.
Eric Shubert wrote:
Maxwell Smart wrote:
I have searched, but really don't know how to ask this question. I
know
most on the list have been confronted with this. If anyone could
point
me in the direction of the answer that would be sufficient.
I have a qmailtoaster that I just put into a co location facility.
It
has rDNS pointed to it's domain name, as it's supposed to. How do I
setup my rDNS entries for mail clients on the server at that
location? Is there a way to use a PTR record that indicates that
it's supposed to
resolve to colo.example.com? What's the correct method of
addressing this?
CJ
There's only one rDNS entry for a given IP address. That entry
should be a ptr record that points to (some other) type A record
that hopefully resolves to the same address which the rDNS entry has.
For example:
shu...@edwin:~$ dig doris.shubes.net
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> doris.shubes.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4288
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;doris.shubes.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
doris.shubes.net. 592 IN A 174.17.83.232
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.70.253#53(192.168.70.253)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 3 19:55:59 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50
shu...@edwin:~$ dig -x 174.17.83.232
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> -x 174.17.83.232
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38386
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;232.83.17.174.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
232.83.17.174.in-addr.arpa. 43031 IN PTR
174-17-83-232.phnx.qwest.net.
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.70.253#53(192.168.70.253)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 3 19:56:38 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 86
shu...@edwin:~$ dig 174-17-83-232.phnx.qwest.net
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> 174-17-83-232.phnx.qwest.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59486
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;174-17-83-232.phnx.qwest.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
174-17-83-232.phnx.qwest.net. 43010 IN A 174.17.83.232
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.70.253#53(192.168.70.253)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 3 19:57:18 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 62
shu...@edwin:~$
HTH
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