On 2008-03-14 at 08:55 -0500, Jerry Jorgenson wrote: > If anyone has had success in instructing ISP personnel on how have a > reverse address correctly refer to the proper name server I would > like to hear the method. (Giving them the page number in the DNS & > BIND book doesn't seem to work. Even getting them to understand the > request seems as difficult as getting a paper airplane to the moon.)
There's the other side, which is the policy side. At $former_employer, people with a single IP address on a residential DSL service didn't get to choose "custom" reverse DNS, but since it was static IP there was matching forward/reverse with the $accountname.$ISP hostname. People with subnets (which SDSL or leased-line customers would have) got to have a custom prefix for each hostname and we typically had mail-gw for the first or second prefix. By now, I forget the custom rules to add more flexibility from when I redid that logic. We sometimes delegated /24s but normally had more problems that way, with customers having bad DNS and us getting blamed. We far preferred to slave DNS from the customer. I think we handled slaving reverse DNS too. So, were you paying for a business class service and speaking to the business helpdesk, or a residential/SOHO service? If the latter, meh. If the former, well, I can say from experience that there are better providers in other countries, but since moving here ... my frustration levels have increased somewhat. (Judging your country from domain registration). -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
