[plug] Reverse DNS Issue

[Shannon Carver]

Thanks for that, 

All fixed now, called them this morning.

Cheers

Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Tomasz Grzegurzko
Sent: Monday, 9 January 2006 1:50 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Reverse DNS Issue

Quoting Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at P-S-T.COM.AU>:

> Hi guys,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm a bit confused about my reverse dns setup.. I have a few IP's from
a
> couple of different ISP's, in which both host domains.  I've setup
their
> reverse DNS records too which I wrongly assumed were done at my side,
> but I think for a dynamically allocated IP from an ISP should probably
> be done from there side.  In other words, if I have the IP
203.59.63.44,
> iinet might set its reverse DNS as vn-203-59-63-44-perth.iinet.net.au.
> 
>  
> 
> I have a mail server hosted on an ip, in which the provider (Acure),
> don't have a reverse DNS setup, and a few hosts are thus returning my
> mail with errors such as:
> 
> <KenandJoce at aol.com>: host mailin-04.mx.aol.com[64.12.138.89] said:
> 421-:
> 
>     (DNS:NR)  http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dnsnr.html 421
> SERVICE
> 
>     NOT AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) 
> 
>  
> 
> My question is, is it the ISP's job to setup the in-arpa reverse dns
for
> this IP, or can I do it from my side.
> 
>  
> 
> Sorry if I'm not being specific above, I've been doing standard dns
> stuff for ages, as well as reverse dns from within my own network,
this
> has me stumped a little though.
> 
>  
> 
> Shannon Carver
> 
> 




Your ISPs job I would think.. the subnet belongs to them (presumably),
so its up
to them..

Tomasz
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