[76091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is reverse dns required? (policy question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Wed Dec 1 12:32:14 2004
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Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:29:47 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Greg Albrecht wrote:
> i'm currently having an argument with management.
Don't we all, always? :-)
> we've recently gotten an influx of customer request for us to setup
> reverse dns for the customer's mail servers, since most sites (aol,
> freebsd, others) require it to accept mail, and reject mail if it is
> not from a server with reverse dns (i'm aware this is an emerging
> trend).
Don't know if I would call it "emerging", as some people have done it
for years.
> however, management has taken it upon themselves to charge our
> customers
> for every reverse dns request they submit to us.
Your business, your servers, your customers, your decision.
It is not completely unheard-of, but it certainly is very rare.
Personally, as a customer, I would never pay an ISP for in-addr, and
would make a conscious effort to change ISPs if one made me pay for it.
Strikes me as the type of nickel-and-dime mentality that will cause me
much larger problems down the road.
--
TTFN,
patrick
