FYI to Scott I have been using this tool quite a bit as I tweak things to make sure the world sees me right, and occasionally I get the same PTR lookup timeout. Hit refresh, and all is fine again.
- Tony Gray Intouch Communications, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Question on reverse MX lookups > > > > >Some while ago, while I was struggling with DNS settings, > someone here gave > >me the URL > http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=x.com, where > >you replace the x.com with any domain name you need to check. > > Actually, you can go to http://www.dnsreport.com and enter the > domain there > (it's a bit easier to remember). > > >As far as we can see, we have both of these configured the same. > They are > >both virtual IMail domains on the same server, they both have MX records > >pointing to mail.bcwebhost.net, and the reverse pointer on the IP points > >also to mail.bcwebhost.net. So why does one report a problem and not the > >other? > > There are a couple reasons why this may have happened. Most likely, the > reverse DNS lookup timed out (for some reason the reverse DNS > lookup in the > DNS Report seems to timeout more quickly than it is supposed to). > > You can try refreshing the page a bit later to see if the answer has come > back, or test the mail server IP address directly using the Reverse DNS > Tester at http://www.DNSstuff.com , which does a better job with the > reverse DNS lookups. > > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
