Please help me with rDNS
 

Hi guys,

Maybe someone can help me with a little issue that I have.

I have a server on OVH and in same server I have about 20 websites that uses same IP.

Now I want to launch a new website but with a different IP, so I buy with OVH an IP FailOver to use in that website.
Everything is working great, the new website already have the new IP.

But after I use some sites to see if my new IP is blacklisted anywhere, I found the same error in many sitesl, saying:

Etc...

I have contacted platinumservermanagement.com that made the management of my server and they said:

I have contacted OVH and Im still waiting for an answer.

Meanwhile I have contacted the namecheap.com where the domain is, but they also said that must be with the host provider too.

I also find a strange thing, in my domain name server setup, I have this:
http://i.imgur.com/IwoEiWo.png

Currently is using "Use Namecheap Hosting DNS Servers" option. I think that is not good. But my website is working fine..

I was checking the options inside the OVH account panel and find this:
http://i.imgur.com/TtM2Xt0.png
Should I change anything here?

Also find this tutorial:
http://help.ovh.com/IpFailover


I know that the message is a little confuse, but can someone please help me fixing this issue?

Thanks,
Tim

Just set the reverse to the same as the server hostname (assuming you're not still using the default hostname).

e.g. set server.yourdomain.com as the hostname and then set the reverse on the primary IP on the server to server.yourdomain.com. That'll be enough to satisfy every dnsbl and mail server requiring rdns.

Hi buddy, thank you for your reply and for trying to help me.

But how can I do that? Im a very very newbie on this hehe

Should i contact OVH or the platinumservermanagement guys?

I know that I already have a server.domain.com
But can I have a second in the same server like server.domain2.com?

Can you give me the exact steps or is too much to ask it? :)

To change the hostname on your server, just follow http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_c...ostname-change

Are you using a control panel like cpanel or plesk? Both of those have provisions built in for changing the hostname.

The reverse dns will need to be set with your host. It looks like your hosts account portal has the ability to set the rdns for your IP. This is where you would do that: http://i.imgur.com/TtM2Xt0.png

According to the blacklist entry, your hostname is set as 94-23-78-68.ovh.net. Just set it to a fully qualified domain name, then set the reverse DNS for that IP to match the hostname. There's no need to pay a server admin for this at all.

Thank you for your explanation my friend.

I already have a hostname set in my server.
Can I create a second one and work with the two together!?

As far as I know, there is no way to set more than one hostname. Regardless, there is no reason to do that.

Than what alternatives do I have?
I have two IPs, but only want to use one of them in one website.
I did that and is working fine, but I have the issue that I said above.

Do I need to buy a new host for this single website to have a different IP?

Hey, the reverse ip is really going to affect your mail. You can find more info on rdns at wikipedia. When you go to your domain it resolves to an ip. rdns is just a means of matching the ip to a domain.

You should be able to do this through ovh. Simply look for the rdns or 'reverse ip' manager. Find the corresponding ip, and set its rdns record to be thebestpaysites.com

You can also most certainly have multiple websites on the same server. You will simply need to configure the apache virtualhosts (or nginx, tomcat, etc. ) to route the corresponding domains to the correct document root.

The hostname and reverse dns have nothing to do with how apache handles vhosts. You can run any number of sites you'd like on one or more IPs. As I said above, set the hostname for the server and then set the rdns to match and you're done. No need to over-complicate this.

Yes, babaganooshexplained it much simpler. I thought you were referring to having multiple websites on the same server. I misread your post.

Thank you for your replies buddies.

In fact, I have multiple websites on the same server using the same IP. But I like to use a different IP in this new website.

I did what cs_student said and seems to work, but I'm not 100% sure because I need to wait 24 hours for propagation I think.

Using this option:
http://i.imgur.com/LhclOFr.png
And write this:
http://i.imgur.com/bsBCXee.png

Hope this helps... :)