Hello all,
I will admit, I thought I knew enough about DNS to get it working. I managed
to send and recieve mail to myself from all the domains I managed. I could get
to the right website. I ran into a domain that did exactly as Scott mentions
here. The sysadmin for this domain was no help at all, and quite rude about
it. It turned out it wasn't a problem with my DNS servers, but my upstream
provider. They had to add a PTR entry to their DNS, so that all of our class C
IP's mapped back to us.
I'm certain that I don't know all I should about being a sysadmin. I do know I
enjoy it a lot. I think this list is one of the best places to educate people
like myself.
That's my 2 cent anyway.
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: SMiller@unimin.com [mailto:SMiller@unimin.com]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004, 9:51 AM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: educating rDNS violators
Our mail administration group recently implemented blocking of all incoming
messages from domains that cannot be resolved via reverseDNS, for purposes
of spam prevention. Of course, there are quite a number of legitimate
business contacts who do not have rDNS properly configured. Assuming that
the rDNS criterion remains, the question becomes one of who will notify
and/or educate the sender(s) about this issue. The only time-efficient way
that I can think of to do this would be to have instructions and references
in the body of the bounce message itself. Anyone tried that? Results?
Other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Scott
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