Search Again: Re: Windows and QuickDNS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2001 Time: 2:33:14 pm At 1:02 PM -0400 6/6/01, Dave Cooper wrote: >Hi, > >After recently tightening security on our mail server, all of my Windows >boxes (Win95,98,2000) are unable to send mail to the mail server. The error >message indicates that the reverse DNS look is returning a different name, >etc. My Macs are ok. Does QuickDNS 2.21 work with Windows? If so can you >offer any hint as to what isn't set up in my configuration? Your mail server is misconfigured. It should accept any and all mail from local machines. That oversight appears to be combining with a lack of PTR records for your Windows machines. Who controls your PTR records, you or your ISP? If you're on a private subnet, with a NAT server, then the answer is you, by definition. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:02:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by andrew on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:27:52 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 2:33:14 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Aaron Lynch on Jun 6, 2001 at 3:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 4:03:36 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:37:11 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 9:55:57 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 8, 2001 at 8:36:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 8, 2001 at 9:50:57 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Sam Narayanan on Jun 10, 2001 at 12:35:08 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by micaelac on Jun 11, 2001 at 6:08:00 pm