Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: PTR record and ISP blocking...

2004-11-20 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/19/2004 20:31, "Rodd Ahrenstorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could the other ISP be attempting to verify my actual server host name > against the existing PTR record before accepting email? Yes, they could be. Forward and reverse lookups really should match. (Whether to reject based on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: PTR record and ISP blocking...

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:31 PM -0700 2004-11-19, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote: Should I have my ISP drop the host name portion in my PTR? Could the other ISP be attempting to verify my actual server host name against the existing PTR record before accepting email? Any other suggestions to keep the ISP's on my good side?

[Mailman-Users] Help: PTR record and ISP blocking...

2004-11-19 Thread Rodd Ahrenstorff
I've recently had a local ISP block incoming email from our mailing list server. I'm trying to figure out why this occurred.it is not the result of virus or spam activity. One thing I noticed: our PTR record is listed as mail.domain.org, but it doesn't match the actual host name of the server (a