[SOC] Missing Email's

[Alan L. Waller]

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>
>Humm ... John, you've done it agn !
>And now that Al is among us, let's share something with him on a public 
>place :
>
>Here is the header of the mesg sent by John :


John's DNS is not set up properly for his domain, It is a MUST that your 
domain resolve both directions and his reverse DNS is missing. To modern 
mail servers an un-resolvable domain usually equals a spammer and the mail 
is refused. We do that at QSL as it is the default configuration for Sendmail.


Server:         63.238.179.1
Address:        63.238.179.1#53
Name:   w2agn.net
Address: 66.150.5.36

[root@mail log]# nslookup 66.150.5.36
Server:         63.238.179.1
Address:        63.238.179.1#53
** server can't find 36.5.150.66.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN

There is the number below to call to get the hosting company to fix it.

IP whois of 66.150.5.36
ipw: Connecting to server: whois.arin.net:43
ipw: Query: net 66.150.5.36
ipw: Connecting to server: whois.arin.net:43
ipw: Query: !NETBLK-PNAP-SEF-ENOM-RM-02
eNom - CS (NETBLK-PNAP-SEF-ENOM-RM-02)
    16771 NE 80th St
    Redmond, WA 98052
    US

    Netname: PNAP-SEF-ENOM-RM-02
    Netblock: 66.150.5.0 - 66.150.5.255

    Coordinator:
       Operations Center, InterNAP Network  (INO3-ARIN)  noc@INTERNAP.COM
       206.256.9500 (FAX) 206.256.9580

    Record last updated on 19-Sep-2001.
    Database last updated on  30-May-2002 19:59:31 EDT.

73, Al