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[Dennis Willson]

Your simple HELO check probably takes less time and cycles to do than 
the DNS checks. I too make sure that the HELO doesn't use my mail 
servers own name or IP address, and yes I would catch most of those 
further on, but catching as many as possible as early and with less 
work as possible appears to me to be a good thing.



On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:27:39 -0700
  John Rudd <jrudd at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Matt Kettler wrote:
>
>>Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie wrote:
>>>John Rudd wrote:
>>>>a) had no PTR record,
>>>
>>>Reasonable enough
>>>
>>>>b) PTR and A record didn't match, or
>>>
>>>So what about shared hosting??
>>
>>Should work fine. He's not talking about comparing the PTR to the 
>>HELO.
>
>Yeah, while I do some HELO filtering, I don't require that the HELO 
>matches the PTR record.  Even what little HELO filtering I do (don't 
>give me my own name in the helo string) is technically an RFC 
>violation, but I'm comfortable with being just that out of spec. 
> Anything more than that would be, IMO, inappropriate.
>
>Though, looking through my nightly reports, I see that my DNS rules 
>would catch 95% of those hosts anyway... so I may drop what little 
>HELO filtering I'm doing.
>
>
>>What John really means is that:
>>
>>Given an IP address, perform a PTR lookup. Take the results of that 
>>PTR lookup
>>and perform an A lookup on it. That should end up with the IP address 
>>you
>>started with.
>>
>>
>>So he's looking for ip != A_lookup( PTR_lookup(ip))
>
>Mostly correct.   The A_lookup can return multiple IP addresses, 
>however so it's more like:
>
>grep ip A_lookup(PTR_lookup(ip))
>
>
>Sort of.
>
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