[Gllug] Tiscali broadband

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:39:37PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> > Are they really this crap that they can't/won't set the reverse IP address ?
> > Someone please tell me that the Indian bloke got it wrong.
> 
> That's certainly common practice for ISPs who allocate ADSL connections 
> out of a big pool.
> 
> If you have a small subnet from your ISP, a /29 for example, then, if 
> you ask nicely, they will sometimes add custom reverse DNS for you. Zen 
> are an example of an ISP who have done this for me.

I know that it is possible ... but not all of them can be arsed to do it.
It was a major criterium in me choosing Eclipse for my ISP.
Unfortunately this customer is already with Tiscali.

Trouble is that if forward/reverse don't match some things don't play well, email
and smtp spring to mind.

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