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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: jason@jasongurtz.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:58:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be09049ad9740104d6c0c3e2297b3805@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482914E5.4090304@jasongurtz.com>

> The solution for people on dynamic addresses (typically with some
> generic and non-matching PTR record, though I haven't checked yours) is
> likely to relay out through your ISP's mail server.

because of the way the DNS is put together, PTR records cannot be relied upon.
ownership of the DNS entries for a name are unrelated to the DNS entries for the in-addr
entries for a set of IP addresses to which they map.

this is all reminiscent of the nonsense of RFC1413




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 19:19 [9fans] upas/fs rfc 2047 encoding erik quanstrom
2008-05-12 20:36 ` [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 20:39   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 22:34     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 22:47       ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 17:41         ` Anant Narayanan
2008-05-13 17:54           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-12 23:35       ` Armando Camarero
2008-05-12 23:54         ` a
2008-05-13  0:20           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13  4:11       ` Jason Gurtz
2008-05-13  8:58         ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-05-13 12:01           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 13:23             ` a
2008-05-13 14:57           ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-05-12 23:53   ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 17:22     ` Russ Cox
2008-05-13 17:31       ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-13 19:52         ` Russ Cox
2008-05-13 20:07           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-14  0:44             ` Russ Cox
2008-05-14  2:39             ` Nate S
2008-05-14 22:13 erik quanstrom
2008-05-14 23:22 ` Russ Cox

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