"John Souvestre" <johns@sstar.com> writes:
> Want proof? My mail server is "mail.sstar.com". The IP is 209.205.176.7.
> A reverse on that IP will yield sr.sstar.com. Neither I nor my users have
> any trouble sending mail to AOL users.
No. I assure you that AOL requires the domain part of the reverse
lookup to match. Call their NOC and ask. I did. At one time, they
briefly flirted with making the entire fq hostname match. You may
be able to find some old archives of inet-access that talk about this.
your mailserver announces itself as mail.sstar.com and that reverses
to sr.sstar.com. If it reverse to sr.johnsotherdomain.com, AOL would
silently /dev/null the incoming mail. I've tested this many times.
That's why I say to folks on DSL/cable who wish to send their own
mail via a local mailserver to simply match their hostname in their
mail server config to their ISP-managed public IP's reverse lookup.
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