Re: Need a new reverse lookup zone

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 06/22/04


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:00:05 GMT

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:07:06 -0700, "Brandon"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am having a problem with one of our clients whose ISP
>is blocking our email.
>
>I have our regular domain name with the MX record being
>mail.domainnametoolong.com
>
>We then purchased another domain name which is shorter
>and describes our company better, so I also have an MX
>record pointing to mail.domainnameshorter.com
>
>Both of these MX records are on the same DNS server.
>However, when my W2K domain was setup, it was using
>domainnametoolong.com
>
>Now I need a Reverse Lookup for domainnameshorter.com on
>my internal DNS server so mail will stop being rejected
>to this client. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!!

Have you been delegated authority for the reverse DNS for your IP
range? If not, your ISP will have to do this.

Alternatively, get your client to work with their ISP to allow your
domain to pass.

Jeff



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