pageoneresults - 9:21 pm on Sep 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

When was the last time you ran a DNS Report [dnsreport.com] for your sites?

Hurry, run one now and verify that you have no Warnings and/or Failures.

Warnings may not be too big of an issue although we did find one this morning that is now causing issues with GoDaddy email users.

Failures should be addressed immediately.

Let us know what types of Warnings and/or Failures you run into so everyone viewing this topic has an understanding of what the DNS Report is telling them.

P.S. We've had a few complaints from email users on our email system. Their emails were being rejected by GoDaddy email servers as Spam in the past 7-10 days. This just started happening and we are going to assume that GoDaddy made some changes on their end. The Warning was due to a conflicting host name in the HELO settings for the mail servers.

P.S.S. One of the warnings you may see with your mailservers is this one...

Your domain does not have an SPF record. This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record before October 1, 2004, the target date for domains to have SPF records in place.

We are now working on adding SPF records to all zone files as suggested by the DNS Report. If you have an SPF Warning in the report, there will be a link to a resource where you can automatically generate an SPF record based on a series of questions. You then paste the SPF Text into your zone file for each domain.