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Sunday, April 11th, 2021 11:14 PM

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PTR Record Request

Hi Xfinity. I need an official Xfinity employee to help me set-up a PTR Record for my home email server. I will send you a PM with the required information once I receive a reply from you. Thank you!

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4 years ago

https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpeedInternetAUP / Prohibited Uses and Activities / Technical restrictions says residential customers may not:

... use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network ... Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;

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4 years ago

This is a private email system for testing and family members only. It is not offered to anyone outside of my LAN.

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4 years ago

Again, I am taking software development and programming classes and setting up a test email server for my family is a training exercise. But the server won't work without a PTR Record. Xfinity, please respond. Thank you.

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4 years ago

So if it’s only to be used on your home lan, you can install a dns server on your pc, such as Bind, You can configure all that, plus it will be a good learning experience, or install virtualbox, install Linux within it, install Bind, all are Free, of course you would configure internal ips

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