spam checks: PTR records, dynamic domain
Myrle A Francis 2nd
mafmanet at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 15:10:08 EST 2007
"What identifies your domain as being dynamic? That it is served by DNS
servers belonging to a dynamic DNS service? The TTL setting?"
Tom you may not be too far off in your thinking. I know a sys admin
that automatically flags .biz addresses as spam ...
Tom Metro wrote:
> Bill Horne wrote:
>
>> Since I use a dynamic dns service to receive email on my Debian box,
>> I'll ask what happens when forward (A) and reverse (PTR) records don't
>> match.
>
>
> I believe typical practice these days, if PTR records are examined at
> all, is to just check that they exist, not that the returned domain
> matches the domain specified in the SMTP HELO. But I don't know what
> DynDNS specifically implements.
>
>
>> I don't know why, but some System Administrators
>> think that a "dynamic" domain name is prima facie proof of spam.
>
>
> What identifies your domain as being dynamic? That it is served by DNS
> servers belonging to a dynamic DNS service? The TTL setting?
>
> -Tom
>
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