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

At 11:15 AM 4/26/2004, you wrote:

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.


This is a BIG deal if you want reliable service to an AOL recipient!


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.
Also, I block charter.com because I had NEVER received a valid mail from that domain, just spam and script kiddies. 


Jeff
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