[Cialug] RFC & best practices for mail server hostnames?

[David Champion]

I've seen other people with the same issue. I sent that info along to their
IT department about a month ago, but they hadn't fixed it last time I
checked.

-dc


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> On 02/01/2013 03:35 PM, Pixie wrote:
>
>>
>> o  The domain name given in the EHLO command MUST be either a primary
>>     host name (a domain name that resolves to an address RR) or, if
>>     the host has no name, an address literal, as described in
>>     Section 4.1.3 and discussed further in the EHLO discussion of
>>     Section 4.1.4.
>>
>
> That is indeed a club.
>
> I had to hunt through the posts, but it was somewhere referenced that the
> client EHLO identifies as bp75avo2.opr.statefarm.org, which does not
> resolve.
>
> Their system should be identifying it as either [205.242.229.166],
> mail41.statefarm.com, or even a different hostname just so that it
> resolves.
>
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