Search Again: Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 Time: 3:24:03 pm At 3:09 PM -0800 4/4/03, Scott Haneda wrote: >on 04/04/2003 3:04 PM, Jeff Grossman at jeffg@turners.com wrote: > >> Unless you have a business DSL account with them, they probably won't even >> talk to you about reverse DNS. And, I am not even sure they will even if >> you are a business DSL account. > >It is business class > >> >> May I ask why you want the reverse DNS changed? I have never a DSL line at >> home which I run my own mail and web server on. I have never run into a >> problem with the reverse DNS that was set up by my ISP. > >Well, I don't fully understand it, but I thought that some mailserver and >such do not like it if you don't have reverses set up, That's correct. Most mail servers don't mind, as long as you have some valid PTR record, but a few will object to your mail server if your PTR record doesn't match your MX records. >so I wanted to set >them all up, with my DS-1 here, my ISP has no trouble at all doing this, I >don't see what Verizon does not know about this. > >Is it then correct that there is in fact already reverses set up, they are >just not "pretty" names as I would like, and if I go in and create A records >for the "ugly" names, I would in essence have achieved the same thing? Close. Rather than creating A records for their names (which you shouldn't do, since you don't own the zone in question), you would have to use their ugly name in your MX records. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 3:24:03 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 3:38:46 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Scott Haneda on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:19:17 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:24:20 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:52:21 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Scott Haneda on Apr 4, 2003 at 5:04:31 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 5:41:26 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 10:36:26 pm