March 23, 2004

Anyone know about reverse DNS?

I have frontiernet for an ISP and I am going to find them and bash their little stupid skulls in (figuratively speaking of course).

All of a sudden they are now requiring all incoming emails from email servers to have reverse DNS enabled. That is good and all, but I got not prior notice, and now no one, except other frontiernet email accounts can send to me. This includes people in the Pennsylvnia state government who are supposed to be emailing me time sensative materials.

After waiting 15 minutes on hold to talk to a guy, I found out that I have to notify all my people who email me and have THEM contact THEIR ISPs so THEY can fix the problem.

It really pisses me off that I have to call my co-workers and people I work with and inconvenience them to fix what is my ISPs problem.

Can anyone explain this to me more than I alreay probally misunderstand it?

Posted by Tom Jefferson at March 23, 2004 11:26 PM
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#1

Reverse DNS means that you can look up the IP address that's sending you the email, and get the name of the host.

So this means that the other ISPs and companies need to make sure that their reverse DNS is set up properly.

Now, MuNu has reverse DNS working. It also has nice web mail (and also POP3 access) so you can use it instead of your ISP's mail server if you like.

Posted by Pixy Misa at March 24, 2004 01:25 AM
#2

Well, I guess Shippensburg Univeristy and The Commission on Crime in Pennsylvania don't have it as they can't send me any emails.

this really pisses me off

Posted by Tom at March 24, 2004 03:14 AM
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