PTR records?

rs477 · 13-11-2006, 07:54 PM

Hi,
I have been asked to create a PTR record for one of my websites being hosted. This should get around a mail bouncing problem with AOL and other ISP's by reverse dns mapping their external IP address to mail.theirdomain.com.

Is this possible via Helm? I can see the options for A / CName and Text but no reference to PTR - and I'm not sure any of those options will provide the reverse DNS facility.

Thanks, Ant

paulredpath · 13-11-2006, 11:08 PM

Hi,

We already setup rdns for our mailserver entries, if its their IP on an adsl connection you would need to ask their isp to do that for you.

rs477 · 14-11-2006, 07:02 AM

Right, thinking about it that makes sense. Ok I will let them know.

Thanks for your help Paul.

13-11-2006, 07:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
rs477 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4	PTR records? Hi, I have been asked to create a PTR record for one of my websites being hosted. This should get around a mail bouncing problem with AOL and other ISP's by reverse dns mapping their external IP address to mail.theirdomain.com. Is this possible via Helm? I can see the options for A / CName and Text but no reference to PTR - and I'm not sure any of those options will provide the reverse DNS facility. Thanks, Ant

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14-11-2006, 07:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
rs477 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4	Right, thinking about it that makes sense. Ok I will let them know. Thanks for your help Paul.