Re: Cannot send mail to hotmail?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Andreas westvik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington skrev:
>
> Honestly, you need a reverse DNS record for your IP for you to send mail to
> the Internet directly.
>
> Ok. If this IP is yours forever (as you seem to think) then create a PTR
> record for in where you manage your DNS!
>
> Im going to check this up with a "pro" later tonight. I even rechecked
> everything a everydns.net. But no PTR in their free stuff.
> I even checked it out with godaddy.com and they had something called host
> summary, where I could assign a host to a ip. But since I'm not wat the
> purpose was so never did anyting with it.

The PTR record has to be assigned by whoever owns your IP space.
Generally this is your ISP if they have their own AS number. The only
exception to this is if they've used classless PTR delegation to let
your own DNS servers make the changes. This is very unlikely.

--falz