[BlueOnyx:06571] Re: PTR records

Jon McCauley jon at ontarioweb.ca
Wed Feb 23 21:09:14 -05 2011




On 2/23/2011 3:23 PM, Doug Harvey wrote:
> I had this same problem. I contacted the isp and they added a ptr for 
> me. No problem, but something to keep in mind is that the ptr record 
> is going to point to the domain name of the box and not all the 
> domains that you might be hosting on it. So, you'll also need to add a 
> TXT record for those domains. I still had some customers complain that 
> email was being sent to the spam folder on Yahoo, so I had to contact 
> them, but after that, things cleared up and I was good to go.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Alan Kline <alan at snugglebunny.us 
> <mailto:alan at snugglebunny.us>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks to all who answered...we'll do that...
>
>     Alan
>
>     On 2/23/2011 12:05 PM, Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
>     > Just ask your provider (who you got the IP from) to set up the
>     reverse dns
>     > for your IP. Then make sure you have an A record to match what
>     the reverse
>     > says. I think it would be best to match that to the server name
>     also.
>     >
>
>
what we do is add the IP of the box then my Company name ...etc: 
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.companyname.tld

Best Regards, Jon McCauley

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