Re: [OT] Hotmail calls mail from my server spam; how do I contact them?

From: Paul Johnson (baloo_at_ursine.ca)
Date: 05/14/05

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    Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:46:35 -0700
    
    
    

    On Friday May 13 2005 6:58 pm, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
    > "Does your mail server have a PTR entry in your DNS zone file?
    [...]
    > ... but that doesn't make sense to me. I have different A and MX
    > records for the domain, specifically so that I can use a hosted web
    > service while serving mail on a different machine. If that weren't
    > perfectly legit, why even have the concept of an MX record?

    Well, a PTR is a PoinTeR record. Here's some examples from my
    internal domain, network.ursine.ca, as well as it's reverse lookup
    zone, 0.168.0.in-addr.arpa (before dynamic updates make it
    unreadable):

    $ORIGIN .
    $TTL 600 ; 10 minutes
    network.ursine.ca IN SOA ursine.ca. hostmaster.ursine.ca. (
                                    2005051305 ; serial
                                    600 ; refresh (10 minutes)
                                    600 ; retry (10 minutes)
                                    2419200 ; expire (4 weeks)
                                    600 ; minimum (10 minutes)
                                    )
                            NS ursine.ca.
    $ORIGIN network.ursine.ca.
    broadcast A 192.168.0.255
                            TXT "Broadcast address"
    network A 192.168.0.0
                            TXT "Network address"

    and the reverse zone...
    $ORIGIN .
    $TTL 600 ; 10 minutes
    0.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN SOA ursine.ca. hostmaster.ursine.ca. (
                                    2005051305 ; serial
                                    1200 ; refresh (20 minutes)
                                    600 ; retry (10 minutes)
                                    2419200 ; expire (4 weeks)
                                    1200 ; minimum (20 minutes)
                                    )
                            NS ursine.ca.
    $ORIGIN 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
    0 PTR network.ursine.ca.
    1 PTR gateway.ursine.ca.
    255 PTR broadcast.ursine.ca.

    The reverse zone is what gets you to the point where you can do this:

    baloo@ursine:~$ host 192.168.0.255
    255.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer broadcast.ursine.ca.

    You need to create a reverse zone for your network.

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