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From: Rusty Tucker <Rusty_Tucker@spid
To: Andy Daws
Subject: Re: SMTP Problem
Date:Wed, October 21, 1998 12:16 PM


On 10/21/98 2:21 AM, Andy Daws wrote:

>Received: from 195.153.2.3 (unverified [195.153.2.3]) by mail.bepp.co.uk
> ^
>Here is where things are falling down this was previously the domain
>name, it will only verify if the fully qualified hostname is entered. It
>checks to see if the hostname resolves to the same IP it already has but
>not the other way (So even MS have got it wrong in Express no surprise
>there some might add), I assume this is for security.


OK- so to appease MS Outlook - we can supply the domain name so that it can resolve it to the IP address that we're already giving it now?

I'll just add a reverse lookup and give it the name that comes back from DNS then.

Rusty

Rusty Tucker
Spider Island


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