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Re: Windows and QuickDNS

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Time: 9:55:57 pm

At 8:36 PM -0400 6/6/01, Dave Cooper wrote:
>Chris,
>
>You referred to putting in a PTR record for Windows. Does this mean that
>each Windows box has an entry or that one entry will work for all Windows
>boxes?

You need one PTR record per IP address. From your description, you
already have them for your Mac workstations. Add more for your
Windows workstations, one per machine.

>I would qualify your criticism that I've misconfigured my mail server by
>stating that I'm merely using the controls provided. If they are doing
>something illegal, then its something built into the code.

You've locked out some of your local machines. From your previous post:

At 8:27 PM -0400 6/6/01, Dave Cooper wrote:
>5. From the "Server" menu, select "Show Host List"
>
>* Delete all hosts on external networks except those you have modified
>manually. Do not delete hosts on your local network.

Note that last sentence. "Do not delete hosts on your local network."
This assumes that those hosts are there. They should be. That way,
your mail server won't be requesting reverse lookups for all your
local machines.
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