2006/12/20

Mail Server and Reverse DNS lookup

It has been reported that some mail servers fail to deliver outgoing emails to other servers due to the lack or incorrect settings of reverse DNS lookup.

I try to recall my experiences about the settings of MX and PTR in DNS configuration. Woo, the IP address of the mail server should have a proper PTR record which upon interrogation, shall point to a particular hostname. The PTR does not need to be the same host name or use the same domain as the MX record. However, it does need to point to a hostname that has an A record pointing back to the same IP address.

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