getting mail to work

[jekillen]

On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800
> jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote:
>>
>>> The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control
>>> of it and looks like a real server name,  e.g. mail.example.com,
>>> you can stay off the dynamic lists. It doesn't help to have a
>>> static address if your reverse dns looks like 12-43-545-example.net
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for your reply;
>> One of my machines (the one I use all the time and use to send and
>> receive
>> e-mai)  does have an ISP assigned name. But the others are FQDN's that
>> I have registered. One even has .net as the top level domain and that
>> is one I am planning on using for the mail server.
>>
>
> Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and
> reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the
> moment you appear to have the following reverse DNS for the address
> range 75.7.236.224 - 75.7.236.231:
>
> $ for i in `jot  8 224` ; do dig +short -x 75.7.236.$i  ; done
> adsl-75-7-236-224.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-225.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-226.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-227.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-228.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-229.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-230.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
> adsl-75-7-236-231.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
>
OK, It appears that it is the ISPs name servers who
are responding. When I call up my sights I get to the
machines they are on according to my present
DNS setup.
try www.brushandbard.com
Jeff K