Re: [cobalt-users] new to raq 4, email does not work

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:20 am, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> You might ask them about rDNS for your IP so it doesn't resolve to
> *.charter.com. There is just way too much spam from infected users
> and open proxies there for me.

I've always believed that for hosting companies to have reverse DNS 
pointed to anyone else but their own hostname, is the kiss of death; 
clients and would-be clients will eventually notice the hosting is 
being done on what they perceive of as a consumer-grade connection.

I'd have to say _never_ use a connection for hosting where you can't get 
the reverse DNS to point to you.

But even resolving that problem with reverse DNS, I think the problem of 
outgoing email being blocked won't be resolved; every blocklist I know 
of except one works not by who the reverse DNS resolves to, but rather 
the specific IP# and what block of IP#s it's in the middle of.  If an 
IP# is in the middle of a block of IP#s that's marked as belonging to 
home-use DSL customers, you're going to get blocked.

Jeff
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