REVERSE DNS Practices.

Steven Champeon schampeo at hesketh.com
Mon Mar 23 20:06:37 UTC 2009


on Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:44:15PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
> The recommendations in this draft proposal have worked for me:
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt

Also:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-reverse-mapping-considerations-06

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-07

In any case, it depends on whether those IPs will house legitimate
sources of mail; I *strongly* recommend indicating whether an IP is
dynamically or statically assigned, and (ideally) what sort of tech is
in use (dialup? DSL? cable? wifi? etc) so that mail admins can make
decisions about whether or not to allow mail from those hosts. (Hrm, do
I want mail from a dynamic wifi IP? not so much; static generic dsl?
okay, maybe for now).

If you want to be friendly to folks who don't necessarily want to
have to use regexes to match your dynamics, make sure that if you
do use some sort of topology- or geography-based naming, that you
put the "dynamic" or "static" token as far to the right as possible,
so that you end up with

 rdu-1-2-3-4.cable.dynamic.example.net

instead of 

 dyn-1-2-3-4.cable.rdu.example.net

because it's a lot easier for mail admins to block 'dynamic.example.net'
than to have to have local access.db entries for every last geography
you're serving, or have to use regexes. And please don't mix dynamics
and statics under the same naming conventions. 

Finally, if you *do* intend for these IPs to house legit mail servers
(or mail sources, for that matter), whether yours or your clients', for
the love of all that is good and holy, give them /custom/ PTRs that 
indicate the actual domain of the responsible party, rather than just
giving them generic names in your domain, unless you really want to
act as an abuse report gateway for your clients. 

HTH,
Steve

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