On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > a good one. It turned out that my registrar, www.pairnic.com, allows one > to tinker with DNS records for free. So I added a CNAME record to my I think Michael was referring to reverse DNS, ie converting your IP address back into a name. Most ISPs make something up based on your IP address, which some mail servers such as AOL/Netscape use to determine if you're a home user or not. If you are a home user, you can't use their mail server. I found myself in this boat, and ended up using sendmail's mailertable to fix the problem by relaying any mail to the problem domains via my ISP's mail server. In the forward direction, if you use zoneedit.com for your DNS, there is a freely available client called "ddclient", which will automagically update your records on zoneedit when your address changes. Same idea, but without the intermediate provider-specific name. Sean -- Sean A. Walberg http://www.ertw.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics