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Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations


From: Stefan Förster <cite+nanog () incertum net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:52:04 +0100


* Nolan Rollo <nrollo () kw-corp com>:
It seems like the unspoken de facto that mail admins appreciate
given the IP 203.0.113.15 is
"203-0-113-15.[type].[static/dynamic].yourdomain.tld". This seems
perfectly acceptable, it's short, detailed and to the point. Is
there really anything bad about this?

Mail admins wanting matching forward/reverse DNS and hostnames that
don't "look dynamically generated" is probably more of a human than an
RFC thing: "We used to get a lot of spam from dialup IPs, or IPs
without matching reverse DNS, so let's reject anything that comes from
an IP without FcRDNS and greylist anything with more than X dashes and
Y dots in it's hostname."


Stefan

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