[Info-vax] Decuserve.org - Anyone know why it's down?

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In article <ch01i5F5rgqU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <00AF0C69.FA2DB1D5 at sendspamhere.org>,
>	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> In article <cgvsc6F3j6iU5 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>In article <m8a72d$sl0$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>> On 2015-01-04 01:17:20 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2015-01-03, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> FWIW, the decuserve.org DNS resolution has been re-targeted.  The 
>>>>>> domain is now resolving to a different, Boston-area IP address.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What IP address are you seeing and what do you think the last IP address was ?
>>>> 
>>>> I reversed it back to an IP address that indicated it was a Verizon 
>>>> FiOS static, which AFAIK / AFAICR is new.   IIRC, the old address 
>>>> didn't reverse back to FiOS.  If not, "nevermind".
>>> 
>>>I hope that's going to change as it will definitely affect who the users
>>>can send email to.
>> 
>> Why do you say that?
> 
>Many (one would hope most, if not all) proper MTA's will look at the entry
>in the HELO (or EHLO) command in SMTP and attempt to match it to the DNS PTR
>value.  If they don't match it is assumed the contacting MTA is spoofing
>and will be rejected.

Again, why?  If FioS provides a static IP, then there should also be some
way to provide DNS lookups for that static IP.  What good would static IP
be without it??? 

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