Re: [Asrg] What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?

Peter Koch <pk@DENIC.DE> Sun, 05 July 2009 13:56 UTC

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Doug,

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:43:53PM -0700, Douglas Otis wrote:

> When the EHLO host name references IP addresses that match the  
> Outbound MTA, this verifies there is a common administration between  
> the FQDN and DNS.

the DNS namespace is of very little help when it comes to conclusions about
"common administration".  See, for example, RFC 5507, section 4:

   DNS hierarchy neither follows nor implies administrative hierarchy.
   Because of that, it cannot be assumed that data attached to a node in
   the DNS tree is valid for the whole subtree. [...]

Since I'm sure you were already aware of this, I'm wondering in what way
I might have misread your statement.

-Peter