http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=isitaboat.co.uk


It failed on two things...but I don't know what these mean!!

No reverse dns entries...http://www.***.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=isitaboat.co.uk

Should I be shouting @ my host??

if your site works, and you get all your email... don't fix what's not broken

there is no need to worry, but you could forward the report to your host, maybe they can fix some things

The only issue I have with these lot are I cannot send email to alot of people using SMTP. Would this be related?

there are some isps that will reject email now without reverse dns entries. I just found the ultimate dns guru and he's awesom and cheap. dollardns.com - hope it's ok to post urls here, but i just found this out. Now one thing to save you some searching around, your hosting provider has to do reverse dns for you on the network side, even if you have your own dedicated server you can't do it I just had mine done 2 days ago. some errors you'll get on dnsreport are only one mx entry, no resolve at literal, etc. which are insignifigant. No glue is another, but you'll get that if you have .com namerservers and you 're hosting any .org sites. you can fix that too and I can tell you how, but the "guru" says it's extremely insignifigant. basically if you got to comman and type nslookup -q=any yoursitename.com yournameserver.com and it looks good and you get no "non authoritative answers there" you're good.

It's ok to post urls in your replies only if it's related to the topic at hand. Try to avoid linking to a site within your (first) message which also just happens to be a thread that you just started - that triggers a red flag somewhere for sure...