On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grant<emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted
> server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page:
>
> http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php
>
> which says:
>
> "The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband
> systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts
> with "generic" reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-D.isp.com
> for D.C.B.A)."
>
> I do get this:
>
> $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com
> PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1
> ttl=49 time=1267 ms
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?

Have the company from whom you get your static IP set up the reverse
DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address.

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