[ale] godaddy for DNS

[Jim Kinney]

I think the big thing is that reverse look up returns a valid name and not
just a "not found". The ISP controls the reverse lookup on the IP address.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> Well, the IP of the vm is 66.170.20.226 If you lookup www.iavit.org you
> get
> that IP. But if you lookup 66.170.20.226, you don't get www.iavit.org or
> anything like that. And there is no way I can fix that.
>
> I don't think most mail admins filter messages where you can't do a reverse
> lookup . Half the legitmate mail on the internet would be marked as spam. I
> know lots and lots of people who make their gmail account look like their
> work account. I don't know how they do that but if you look at the message
> headers, they say the mail is from example.com when its really from gmail.
>
> iavit.org used to be on dreamhost. We had
> mailman lists configured to use lists.iavit.org. But if you did a lookup
> on
> the IP address for lists.iavit.org, you didn't get back lists.iavit.org.
>  So
> that part, at least, is no different than it used to be.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Mathis
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:36 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] godaddy for DNS
>
> You need an MX record pointing the VM for mail to get delivered to
> your server. Also you will want bith forward and reverse DNS matching
> for your outbound email to really work. Most mail admins, block mail
> from IPs that dont match.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record
>
> -Erik-
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I have a donated virtual machine to use for a non-profit. Its for the
> > International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT).
> I've
> > registered iavit.org at godaddy. But I'm a little confused as to what
> DNS
> > records I need in order to get mail (postfix, dovecot)  and lists
> > (mailman)
> > to work. I need email addresses like john at iavit.org to work and
> addresses
> > like announce at lists.iavit.org to work.
> > What I have at the moment is an A record with a blank host name pointing
> > to
> > the IP of our VM, another A record for lists that points to the same IP
> > address. I wasn't sure you could have 2 A records pointing to the same IP
> > address but it seems to work.  Then I have CNAME records for www and wiki
> > pointing to lists.
> >
> > Can I point godday to a DNS server on the virtual machine itself? I tried
> > to
> > do that but it balked. For one thing, it said I needed 2 DNS servers. I'm
> > not sure what the point of that is because iif DNS is down on the VM,
> > nothing else on the VM is going to work anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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