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Re: AOL rejecting hosts with no rDNS?

2004-06-24 16:29:43
I am not aware of a difficulty in setting up a PTR record for an IP address that runs a mail server. We never said it had to equal the forward DNS or anything else. We just require rDNS and a valid one at that.

jason(_at_)tommyk(_dot_)com wrote:

On 6/24/2004 13:56, Carl Hutzler wrote:

This is our policy and has been in effect for about a year now or more.

Not really wanting to start a flame here but what about people that use
DNS hosting such as provided by Tucows, easyDNS and the like?  These DNS
providers don't support PTR records in an easy way and hence a lot of
the smaller businesses may be unfairly targeted by policies such as this
(though it would appear that AOL is fairly responsible about it).

Regards,

~Jason


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