On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Anders la Cour Bentzon wrote: >Hello, >It appears the Binc mailing list server doesn't have a properly >configured reverse record: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ host mx0.andreas.hanssen.name >mx0.andreas.hanssen.name has address 217.144.230.29 >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ host 217.144.230.29 >Host 29.230.144.217.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) >Mailing list matter seems to originate from 217.144.230.29. >Please note that RFC 1912 recommends reverse records for all IP >addresses ("For every IP address, there should be a matching PTR >record in the in-addr.arpa domain."). >I hope this will be fixed soon.
I'm sorry, but it will not be fixed. Binc's mailing list is served from a server that already has another reverse mapping. But this is perfectly fine; the RFC uses "should" and not "must" for this reason. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."