Reverse Dns Question...is it really necessary or not?

[Chip Mefford]

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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
| SF> AOL refuses incoming email for servers that have no rDNS,
| SF> so it's not exactly oddball mailadmins doing it.
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| Many would point to that as evidence that it was *exactly* oddball mail
| admins doing it.  AOL has a *long* history of adopting ill-conceived and
| half-baked measures in this field.

It's not just AOL, It's a lot of postmasters. More and more every day.

This trend is headed only in one direction.

If it's really a mail server, getting the PTR record in order shouldn't
be that big a deal. Of course, we all know about should(n't)s.

ISPs need to be clueful about their part in addressing, and they
need to help, not hinder their downstream customers, as is so
often the case.
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