STOP THE PISSING CONTEXT (RrDNS-v-PTR)

2012-04-03 Thread Wietse Venema
Guys, have your pissing context somewhere else.

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/3/2012 12:18 PM, Sam Jones wrote: > >>> I do apologise for the distress, offence and disturbance my rude stupid >>> question has obviously caused you. I won't repeat it and I hope you can >>> forgive me. >> >> Re-reading what I wrote, and reading your reply, leaves me at a bit of a >> loss as

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Jones
> > I do apologise for the distress, offence and disturbance my rude stupid > > question has obviously caused you. I won't repeat it and I hope you can > > forgive me. > > Re-reading what I wrote, and reading your reply, leaves me at a bit of a > loss as to what prompted this immature drivel. My

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/3/2012 10:41 AM, Sam Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:31 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> It's possible, but the devil is in the details, which you did not >> provide to us. > It really was just a general question as to how an MTA, specifically > Postfix, would respond if multiple alter

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Jones
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:53 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > With Postfix, multiple IP address per A record are fine, as long > as the CLIENT IP address is listed among them. > > However, having multiple PTR records for one IP address, that is a > different matter. Postfix will not try to guess which

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Wietse Venema
Sam Jones: > Good Afternoon, > > My senior tech and I have been having a squabble over PTR, Hostnames and > reverse mapping. > > If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name lookup > on that, so you get back host.example.com, would it impact on mail if a > forward query for h

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Jones
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:36 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > > > If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name > > lookup on that, so you get back host.example.com, would it impact > > on mail if a forward query for host.example.com returned multiple > > A records, say 1.2.3.4 & 5.6

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Jones
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:31 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 4/3/2012 9:56 AM, Sam Jones wrote: > > Good Afternoon, > > > > My senior tech and I have been having a squabble over PTR, Hostnames and > > reverse mapping. > > > > If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name looku

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread /dev/rob0
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:56:13PM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: > My senior tech and I have been having a squabble over PTR, > Hostnames and reverse mapping. > > If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name > lookup on that, so you get back host.example.com, would it impact > on ma

Re: RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/3/2012 9:56 AM, Sam Jones wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > My senior tech and I have been having a squabble over PTR, Hostnames and > reverse mapping. > > If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name lookup > on that, so you get back host.example.com, would it impact on mail

RrDNS-v-PTR

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Jones
Good Afternoon, My senior tech and I have been having a squabble over PTR, Hostnames and reverse mapping. If you have a client connect from 1.2.3.4 and perform a host name lookup on that, so you get back host.example.com, would it impact on mail if a forward query for host.example.com returned mu