On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:39:34 BST, Alan Cox said: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:20:42 +0300 > Sami Farin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 13:59:12 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Will RMK ([email protected]) please fix his email setup otherwise I > > > can't send serial/tty/arm stuff to him. > > > > > > "<<< 550 You have no reverse DNS; please try again when you have resolved > > > > Well, outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu is NXDOMAIN. > > It should have A record 81.2.110.250. > > I've yet to see a specification which requires this. RFC1912 is admittedly "Informational" status. However, it *does* say: 2.1 Inconsistent, Missing, or Bad Data Every Internet-reachable host should have a name. The consequences of this are becoming more and more obvious. Many services available on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly registered in the DNS. Make sure your PTR and A records match. For every IP address, there should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain. If a host is multi-homed, (more than one IP address) make sure that all IP addresses have a corresponding PTR record (not just the first one). Failure to have matching PTR and A records can cause loss of Internet services similar to not being registered in the DNS at all. Also, PTR records must point back to a valid A record, not a alias defined by a CNAME. It is highly recommended that you use some software which automates this checking, or generate your DNS data from a database which automatically creates consistent data. That advice came out in Feb 1996. You're being bit by the 3rd sentence.
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