[afnog] Dns Reverse Delegation

antonio at nambu.uem.mz antonio at nambu.uem.mz
Mon Feb 7 16:26:15 EAT 2005


Sometimes mailers are configured to discard instead of reject, 
specially in cases where they receive too much junk which has no 
valid return address which leaves huges queues on the mail server.



On 7 Feb 2005 at 12:46, Patrick Okui wrote:

> On Monday 07 February 2005 10:37, antonio at nambu.uem.mz 
> wrote:
> > It may be that the mailer from ripe doesn't accept a mail
> > which does not have a reverse DNS setup, that is if you
> > are sending the mail from your addresses you are trying
> > to register.
> 
> If that were the case, then you'd have a "REJECTED" notice 
> in your mailer logs and most MTAs would send you a bounce. 
> In this case the only response that was got was _silence_
> 
> >
> > just a thought.
> >
> > Cheers,
> 
> Patrick.




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