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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam McKenna)
Sun Dec 7 03:07:35 2003

Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 00:00:11 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
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From: Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net>
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:53:15PM -0500, Adam Kujawski wrote:
> If the customer has a dozen name servers they want you to allocate reverse DNS
> for, it could become unwieldy, but technically, is there anything wrong with
> this setup?

I believe that this setup could be susceptible to the 'gluelessness' problem
described at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html.  At the very least it takes a
few more lookups to find the right answer.

--Adam

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