PTR records for IPv6
Mohacsi Janos
mohacsi at niif.hu
Tue Sep 3 13:14:30 CEST 2013
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
>
>>> Yes, but we must not forget temporary addresses. If the MTA has temporary
>>> addresses, then it will prefer them for its smtp sessions. So, one should
>>> either disable temporaries on all MTAs or use DNS dynamic updates. I think
>>> that it would be much wiser to deprecate PTR checks for IPv6.
>>
>> Why would you use temporary address on a defined SMTP server?
>
> Mostly because it's on by default. Even if you configure a static address and
> default gw, as soon as the system sees RAs it might start to use SLAAC based
> privacy addresses for outgoing connections. I've already seen this happen
> once, which caused problems sending mail to google.
I think it is Configuration problem on SMTP server.
Regards,
Janos
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