| 1 |
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grant<emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
> When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted |
| 3 |
> server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> which says: |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> "The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband |
| 10 |
> systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts |
| 11 |
> with "generic" reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-D.isp.com |
| 12 |
> for D.C.B.A)." |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> I do get this: |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com |
| 17 |
> PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data. |
| 18 |
> 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1 |
| 19 |
> ttl=49 time=1267 ms |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Does anyone know how to fix this? |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
Have the company from whom you get your static IP set up the reverse |
| 24 |
DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address. |
Archives