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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Sat Dec 6 22:09:04 2003

Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:08:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1070765595.3fd2961b616f4@webmail.amplex.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Adam Kujawski wrote:

> Why bother with CNAMES or A records? Is there anything wrong with simply using
> NS records for each adress? i.e.:
>
> $ORIGIN 109.246.64.in-addr.arpa.
> 1        NS         ns1.customerA.com.
> 1        NS         ns2.customerA.com.

This will work. For large blocks it would get tedious to manage, though a
few lines of perl will spit out a file in short order.

Definately not easy to manage on a large scale however.

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