[65623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Wed Dec 3 16:22:08 2003
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:21:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <01D22399-25C5-11D8-940C-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> AOL says the PTR record needs to be assigned. It doesn't specify it
> has to match the @domain.com in the MAIL FROM: header. Wouldn't it be
> enough to make sure every IP address you announce has a PTR and
> matching A record? Hasn't this been a requirement for MANY services
> for MANY years?
Requiring the PTR record to match the MAIL FROM: header would be horrific.
There goes any hope of virtual hosting of mail accounts, i.e. one server
with one ip handling multiple email domains.
Adi
