[Gllug] virgin/ntl/telewest plonkers

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:55:31PM +0000, Andy Millar wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>:
> > the next thing
> > is to ask them to set the reverse IP address on it so that various
> > protocols (principally email) work properly.
> >
> > Their reply:
> >
> >        Unfortunately we are unable to configure customer reverse DNS for cable
> >        modem Ip's.
> >
> 
> Virgin media do set reverse DNS for all of their IPs.
> 
> For mail to "work" (see rfc 1912, which is actually optional) you need a valid forward and reverse dns pair. Virgin media do provide this.

I must admit that I didn't think of this completely obvious solution,
no reason why the school's MX record should not point to SOMEWHERE.lutn.cable.ntl.com.

It would still be nice ...

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:54:38PM +0000, Rob Crowther wrote:
> On 16/12/2009 11:12, Alain Williams wrote:
> >
> >     Unfortunately we are unable to configure customer reverse DNS for cable
> >     modem Ip's.
> >
> >
> Do you have a 'business' account with them, or regular consumer broadband?

It is a business account. They still said 'no'.

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