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jdMorgan - 4:49 am on Dec 5, 2007 (gmt 0)


There are actually two PTR records for addresses in that range; If your server checks only the first (which appears to be a CNAME), then it may fail rDNS verification. The second record points to hotmail.com

Based on this and what I've seen of their robots.txt and on-page robots meta-tag handling, I have to agree with your assessment.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:49 am (utc) on Dec. 5, 2007]


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