On 6 Sep 2009, at 00:52, Grant wrote:
When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my
hosted
server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page:
http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php
which says:
"The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband
systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from
hosts
with "generic" reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-
D.isp.com
for D.C.B.A)."
I do get this:
$ ping -c 1 mydomain.com
PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p):
icmp_seq=1
ttl=49 time=1267 ms
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Have the company from whom you get your static IP set up the reverse
DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address.
So if I have multiple websites on the same server, I will have to pick
a domain which will resolve for rDNS for all the domains?
If you're using Postfix, I think the important thing is that
myorigin / myhostname will match the rDNS.
That's what applies to the HELO thing, anyway.
I'm not really sure what's supposed to be wrong with your current
hostname, but if you can get the host to change the rDNS, then they
can surely change it to something suitable.
Stroller.
