static ip & mail server

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Dec 22 21:41:18 UTC 2003


In article <bs7dhn$114s$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 serhan at stand.com.tr (Serhan BAKIR) wrote:

> Hi, I think this question is asked several times but I still couldn't
> found what I'm looking for. I'll soon have an adsl connection with
> static ip and I want to setup a mail server. I want to register for a
> domain name and give my static ip address to the registrar as the dns
> server address.( At this point I'll also have to setup a name server I
> guess ) So I will have a domain name connected to my ip. But as soon
> as I'm concerned there is this fact called reverse ip lookup! As
> another mail server preparing to accept my mail will run a reverse ip
> lookup and what it finds will be a strange name given to me by my ISP…
> If is it so then the only solution is to want the reverse record to be
> corrected from the ISP. If it isn't so how shall I make my own name
> server to be able to handle all requests before ISP does. I'm a bit
> confused at this moment because I don't think that neither my isp
> would change my reverse record nor my dns server would handle the
> request one step before the isp does. So please enlighten me about
> this reverse lookup please.
> Is there a possible way around to setup your own mail server, which
> has the right forward and reverse records , with a static ip over an
> adsl connection. Any reply will help very much as you can understand
> from the mass above.
> 

Don't worry about it.  There's no requirement that the reverse DNS of 
your address match the name that your mailserver uses for itself.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA


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