Search Again: Re: mail server cannot be found... From: Higher Powered Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 Time: 8:53:00 pm ok- All is well again... sort of. I needed to restart QDNS for some reason. Either that, or my isp is messing with the reverse lookup or something at the exact time I'm doing this! But my mail server, cannot do a lookup for 208.1.125.162 when I have tcp/ip set to my dns. Am I correct then in assuming the following: It is trying to do a reverse lookup and failing. This is the problem with my isp, as they have my reverse records This is a much more important thing than I thought this could be the problem behind all my mail problems Thanks, Jim >>Tell them that you need to have reverse records, whether they are >>delegated to your servers or handled by their servers. Currently, >>they don't even have a record for the surrounding class C - if you >>have the full class C subnet routed to you, ask them to delegate it >>to you as well. Otherwise, I'd guess you'd probably prefer a >>classless delegation, which they should know how to create. >> >>In case they don't, you can give them this URL: >><http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html>. >>It kinda bugs me that major ISP's like that don't know how important >>reverse records are, or simply wait to set up reverse records until >>their customers start complaining.

Messages In This Thread: mail server cannot be found... by Higher Powered on Jan 13, 2000 at 11:22:00 pm Re: mail server cannot be found... by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 14, 2000 at 1:23:00 am Re: mail server cannot be found... by Men & Mice Support on Jan 14, 2000 at 3:53:00 am Re: mail server cannot be found... by Higher Powered on Jan 14, 2000 at 8:53:00 pm Re: mail server cannot be found... by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 14, 2000 at 10:34:00 pm