Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?

[Jesse Molina <jesse@opendreams.net>]

If I remember right, you should never make an MX record direct to a 
CNAME, for reasons that I can't remember right now.

All the same, you are right, I could just make my MX be the PTR and most 
MTAs would be happy.

Unfortunately, the record does not exist, so no help there.



Chris Wagner wrote:

> But does a PTR record exist?  The double reverse lookup should succeed so
> long as there is a valid A <-> PTR pair.  Regardless of whether it was
> launched into from another A or CNAME or IP.  Unless I'm way off base here,
> it goes presented name -> IP lookup -> PTR lookup -> IP lookup.  If the two
> IP lookups match, the test is passed.
>
> At 07:35 PM 7/08/03 -0400, Jesse Molina wrote:
>
> > I have similar problems with mail servers that do reverse DNS SMTP 
> > session checking.  Short of paying for a T1 at $800 USD a month, there 
> > is no way that I can get an IP allocation with reverse DNS delegation so 
> > that I can make my mail server's MX record match up with the PTR record.
>
>
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