Search Again: Re: reverse? headaches From: Karl Schroll Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 Time: 9:16:14 am Thanks Aaron. Karl -- > From: Aaron Lynch <a.list@ninewire.com> > Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:43:34 -0800 > To: quick dns list <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Subject: Re: reverse? headaches > > Well, they are probably trying to do a reverse lookup of 207.224.73.11. > When I do, us west's nameservers fail to answer. So there is a problem > there. Looks to me like maybe you don't have authority of the IP block, or > if you do, US West has other issues with the setup. > > I'd mail the postmaster of geocities, because this is almost certainly > against RFC. And as such, they may be prepared for it as a FAQ to allow > your server if you tell them who you are and explian that it's not spam. > > > > > > On 11/29/00 7:46 AM, The Defendant "Karl Schroll" > <schroll@digitalfrontier.com> Confessed: > >> We use QDNS, EIMS and ListStar. We host several lists that send out >> thousands of emails a day (ski reports). >> >> For all mail that is being sent to the geocities.com domain from ListStar >> via EIMS, the mail is bounced back to me with the following: >> >> The following message could not be delivered to Mackwb2pcv@geocities.com at >> host geocities.com (209.1.224.29) because the sender address was rejected. >> 550 <wp3inch@ns2.digitalfrontier.com>... unresolvable host name - sorry,you >> are 207.224.73.11 >> >> This only happens for geocities.com. All of our other mail service is >> working correctly. >> >> 207.224.73.11 is EIMS, mail.digitalfrontier.com. ns2.digitalfrontier.com >> runs liststar and secondary QDNS and is at 207.224.73.13. >> >> In QDNS, for the digitalfrontier.com record, we have an entry for >> ns2.digitalfrontier.com with type "A", pointing to 207.224.73.13. >> >> I used QDNS domain assistant to set up all of our reverse domains. It >> created a reverse record with, among other things, an entry of >> >> 11.73.224.207.in-addr.arpa. of type "PTR" pointing to >> mail.digitalfrontier.com >> >> and >> >> 13.73.224.207.in-addr.arpa of type "PTR" pointing to >> ns2.digitalfrontier.com. >> >> Can anyone offer advice on why mail to geocites.com (only) is failing? >> Thanks! >> >> >

Messages In This Thread: reverse? headaches by Karl Schroll on Nov 29, 2000 at 7:44:04 am Re: reverse? headaches by Aaron Lynch on Nov 29, 2000 at 8:45:35 am Re: reverse? headaches by Karl Schroll on Nov 29, 2000 at 9:16:14 am