[157434] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Please, talk me down.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sun Oct 21 23:50:11 2012
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:49:54 -0600
In-Reply-To: <20121021210658.GA11698@vectra.student.iastate.edu>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> As an aside, you may want to fix your DNS, as some mail receivers don't
> like this:
> $ dig -x 72.249.91.101 +short
> static.serversandhosting.com.
> $ dig a static.serversandhosting.com +short
> 72.249.3.27
What is really meant to be said is that MTA's which require RFC compliance =
won't talk to you. Running an MTA which requires minimal RFC compliance (p=
articularly in respect of DNS configuration) eliminates 98% of spam.
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