On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 12:29:03 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 12:24:35 schrieb Florian Pritz:
I just noticed sigurd.archlinux.org has a broken rDNS so my mailserver rejects all mails coming from the AUR.
Looks like your mail server is broken. An IP can have several hostnames.
Could you explain what you are using to filter emails? If you really check if the ehlo domain/ip is the same as the rdns you might get very few emails. ;-)
He might be referring to FCrDNS which does seem to be broken for 208.92.232.29 as: a reverse lookup on 208.92.232.29 gives client-208-92-232-29.sevenl.net but a lookup of client-208-92-232-29.sevenl.net does not resolve to 208.92.232.29 checked at http://ipadmin.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php Not sure if any mailservers are using this but it wouldn't surprise me if Google was using it. :) Mike
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Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre