On Thursday 03 September 2009 19:52:07 Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> > This is done in a way such that a reverse lookup looks a little different
> > than normal by introducing an extra CNAME lookup step (see example below)
> > and I'm simply wondering if I could run into problems with certain smtp
> > servers when delivering mail to them from my courier server
> > (slash.sentinel.dk).
>
> You should have no problems as long as the resolver used by the mail
> server you're delivering to handles it properly. To my knowledge, all of
> them do. A cname is a perfectly reasonable response to a request for a
> ptr, and should just cause the resolver to restart the lookup with the
> name specified in the cname response. It results in some extra overhead,
> but that's a problem any time you use cname records.

Thanks. What I was hoping to hear. :-)

Best regards,
Frederik Dannemare


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