DNS problem?

[Jason_I_Am]

Hi.

I'm having a problem with e-mails and DNS. I *think* it has something to do with the IN PTR record, judging from what I've been reading, but I'm not too sure as I'm not very experienced with these sorts of things.
Let's assume my domain is mydomainname.com . My IP is 123.234.78.90
Basically, when I send an e-mail from my server, it has the following in the header:

from myisp.com (xxx.yyy.zz.aa) by ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Apr 2007 09:37:21

As you can see, it's displaying "ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net" (ie. A GoDaddy server) there instead of mydomainname.com.

How do I fix that?

I have a file called "78.234.123.in-addr.arpa" in /var/named/run-root/var . The file contains:

$TTL 86400

@ IN SOA ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net. myusername.ip-123-234-
78-90.ip.secureserver.net. (
1169840963 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
10800 ) ; Minimum

IN NS ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net.
43 IN PTR ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net.
43 IN PTR mydomainname.com.
43 IN PTR client1.com.
43 IN PTR client2.com.
43 IN PTR client3.com.

I'm really confused. I don't know what to change (or even where to start!).

Oh, also, I just noticed that the arpa file seems to have the "IN NS" entry set to that same value. Does that matter? The name server I give all my clients is ns.mydomainname.com.

Can someone give me some instructions, please? I'd really like to learn how to get this done properly.

Thanks!

 

[jwdick]

from myisp.com (xxx.yyy.zz.aa) by ip-123-234-78-90.ip.secureserver.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Apr 2007 09:37:21

You cannot "fix" that cause it isn't broken. GoDaddy does not give you direct access to send out emails. ALL emails from your box ( limit of 1000 per day, did you know that? ) relay through their secureserver.net (supposedly so they can control spam going out from their registered ip addresses ). With a GoDaddy setup, you do not need PTR records in your Plesk because all IP's reference back to GoDaddy.

 

[Jason_I_Am]

Thanks for the reply!

That's extremely interesting. It also explains why I was getting nowhere when I tried removing IN PTR records.

Actually, I'm on a dedicated server. I assume it still makes no difference since the mails are still going to go through secureserver.net?

I had no idea about the 1000 e-mail/day thing! I looked it up and it's in the FAQ. Wow. They say you can increase your limit if you ask them. Any idea what the limit they'd increase to is?

Again, thanks for the reply. If you (or anyone else) has anymore useful info, I'd love to hear it

 

[jwdick]

GoDaddy would do a step increase depending on what you ( your clients ) are sending out from your server. You would have to send them an example of the email going out, THEN they would tell you how many outbound emails they would allow. Presumably, you have to prove that you are sending out legitimate emails.

 

[MaximumPig]

email cap at godaddy

submit a sample email and make sure it has an opt out address or link. you also need to submit a statement that you will comply with their spam policy and the CAN-SPAM act. My cap was raised to 20,000 without any trouble (although I haven't tested the limit yet since my email scripts seem to crash my server).