[Mimedefang] OT: DNS sanity check
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Thu Jul 5 22:51:20 EDT 2007
Jeff Rife wrote:
>
> Configured not to be null...yes. Configured so that reverse and
> forward mappings match up...not nearly as often as you think. For
> example, mine would fail that test because I have an ISP that won't
> change reverse DNS.
"Changing" isn't necessary for this test. All that matters is that your
ISP supplies a forward lookup in their own domain to match whatever name
they give the reverse lookup. That's why it is pretty much irrelevant
to what your hosts might be doing on the address.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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