Hi,

There is a setting in Exchange that says Perform Reverse DNS Lookup On
Incoming Messages. What is the benefit of this? Does this help
prevent email from bogus domains? SPAM?

I am getting an error when I try to send to a certain domain.

The remote host "216.240.32.17", responded to the SMTP command "rcpt"
with "450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [MY MAIL
SERVER'S IP] ". The full command sent was "RCPT TO:<emailaddress> ".
This may cause the connection to fail. For more information, click
http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

I am guessing that the remote mail server has the Reverse DNS Lookup
enabled and my mail server doesn't have a ptr record.

Can anyone confirm my thinking??

Thanks.

Re: Performing a Reverse Lookup on Incoming Messages by Ed

Ed
Wed Nov 01 18:04:56 CST 2006

The message you're seeing was generated by the remote system, right? It is
saying that your server doesn't have a valid PTR record.

The purpose is to reduce spam, yes. But the effect will be to substantially
increase your SMTP overhead, possibly significantly delay your Internet
mail, and it probably won't make much of a decrease in your spam anyway.

IMF, free with Exchange 2003 SP2, will do a better job, and some third-party
products and services are even better at antispam.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"K.J. 44" <Holleran.Kevin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> There is a setting in Exchange that says Perform Reverse DNS Lookup On
> Incoming Messages. What is the benefit of this? Does this help
> prevent email from bogus domains? SPAM?
>
> I am getting an error when I try to send to a certain domain.
>
> The remote host "216.240.32.17", responded to the SMTP command "rcpt"
> with "450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [MY MAIL
> SERVER'S IP] ". The full command sent was "RCPT TO:<emailaddress> ".
> This may cause the connection to fail. For more information, click
> http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
>
> I am guessing that the remote mail server has the Reverse DNS Lookup
> enabled and my mail server doesn't have a ptr record.
>
> Can anyone confirm my thinking??
>
> Thanks.
>