A client of mine told me that he couldn't send email to a particular address. The 
intended
recipient's ISP is blocking the message.

After contacting the ISP in question, they sent me the following reply:

> The reverse DNS entry on the server's IP should match one of 
> the server's forward DNS names, for example 
> "mail.netinteraction.com" or "mx1.netinteraction.com", so 
> that it can be easily recognized by other sites as a 
> legitimate mail server.  Right now, the reverse entry is 
> "208-151-247-226.netinteraction.com", which is not very helpful.

The host name for the Imail server is netinteraction.com, so my understanding is that 
this my
reverse DNS is "by the book".

I have two questions. The first question is how should I respond to these folks? Is 
there any merit
whatsoever in what they are saying? Does anyone have a reference that I can point them 
to that
clearly states why this  is incorrect?

The 2nd question is even if these guys are not respecting valid configurations, is 
there a "best
practice" that would make my life easier when it comes to overzealous ISPs?

Paul Navarre


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