On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22:39, Tracy wrote: > At 21:32 7/27/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: > >On Tuesday 27 July 2004 20:13, John Kielkopf wrote: > > > http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.12.136.106 > > > > > > Yeah, looks like you have no PTR record visible. Your bandwidth > > > provider should be able to create it for you, or delegate a reverse > > > lookup zone to you. > > > >Yeah, this is pretty weird. I have my own name servers and I've always had > >RDNS configured I assume correctly. Now nobody can do the lookup outside > > my LAN. Based on the 'dig' that Tracy did, the lookup ends at my ISP and > > never even queries my name server. My best guess is that my ISP provides > > DNS for the other IPs in my block and their configuration is preempting > > my server. I've got a trouble ticket started with my ISP to see if they > > can resolve this. > > > >Jeff > > That's pretty much it, I'd say. Either they need to delegate authority for > your subnet to your DNS servers, or they need to establish PTR records for > your IP addresses. > > Some ISPs do this without charge, but don't count on it - a lot of ISPs are > using the "extras" to make up for the money they lose in bandwidth fees. > However, for simple PTR records, the charge should not be exorbitant - > usually a "one time charge"....
It's fixed now. My ISP instituted a new policy that all IPs had to have a PTR record so they... broke mine (?). Yeah, and they took 28 hours to fix it and didn't even apologize that they crippled my mail server for over a day. Argghh! At least they didn't charge me for fixing their screwup. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
