BT reverse ptr records
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jun 14 00:32:33 UTC 2005
In article <d8kfmq$e0p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "C" <c at co.com> wrote:
> Hi
> hope this is the best group to post this in
>
> i have just moved over our office to BT from easynet
>
> with easynet we had our dns setup so we could run a mail server from the
> office. the domain had a sub domain 'mail.mydom.com' and easynet setup a
> reverse record for this as well
>
> since moving to BT we have the same setup internally, however BT will not
> change their reverse dns ptr/in-addr records to match our domain and i am
They should probably delegate the reverse DNS for your whole subnet to
your DNS servers.
> worried that this will lead to mail being returned because the reverse lookup
> does not match the domain it comes from
>
> is this true and if so how can i get round this
Yes, it's true. I think BT is being ridiculous. I can't believe that
an enterprise Internet connection would not include reverse DNS
delegation.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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