On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:26:47PM +1100, Tony Green wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:21, David Fitch wrote: > > you could argue that it's not a "legimate mail server" > > if it doesn't reverse resolve. > > Are there valid reasons why they wouldn't reverse resolve? > > What if you house your machines at a co-lo site? You're allocated an IP > and you can't control the reverse mapping of it. Does that mean that > you don't have a 'legimate mail server'?
you might not be able to control the reverse mapping but it should still map to something - which is good enough. Are there co-lo places where the IP doesn't reverse map to anything? and if so, why? (apart from incompetence or cluelessness) > We're getting off-topic and should take this to -chat I'm not on slug-chat, and besides I don't think it's OT. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
