I thought I was buying an iPod. I sent the guy 180.00 through iTunes giftcards in exchange for an iPod. He somehow cracked my account and took more money for a total of 0.00. I’ve cancelled the card and changed my iTunes password, but the money is still lost. I called paypal, but on the bill it says it’s a payment to itunes which its, so I contacted iTunes and they said to call my credit card company, and their fraud department would contact iTunes directly. I took almost two hours on the line for them to say we had to fill out a form which we never got. I have the guys phone number, email address, and a name (but I’m not too sure, I got it from a reverse lookup. Someone please give me advice on how I can get my money back, (also he called us and said he was in nigeria, but his area code is from Denver, and when we called the number back, it was a completely diff. person, with no idea whats going on) i just want my money back, someone please help me!!

I have an email that was received from a person in Costa Rica. But when I did a reverse lookup, it showed Illinois and also Maryland as where the originating IP address was from. Could it b possible for someone in C.Rica to send and email off of a server in the U.S?

i received a strange email from an email address *******@hotcopot.info

wondered who it was

can not get any info when doin email reverse lookup

I registered a domain from an ISP/Hosting company, and leased a Virtual Private Server from them to operate my website.
AOL and other mailservers won’t accept email from my website because it does not have Reverse Domain Name Server Lookup set up.

Everything I have read says this is the responsbility of the ISP that provided the IP addresses and Domain Name Servers.
The company says it is *my* responsibility, and I will have to dedicate two IP addresses and build this into my Virtual Private Server, and will have to upgrade to 0 month to handle the "extra load".

I say it is their responsibility to set up reverse DNS look up, given that they provide the DNS servers and the two IP addresses so that the internet community can translate my domain name into an IP address.

If you do a "Who Is?" lookup, it returns two nameservers operated by the ISP, and their dedicated IPs for them. I figure a reverse lookup should lead to their servers also.

Please help me sort this out.
The first answer does not seem to help.
I have gone to www.dnsstuff.com, and there is NO reverse DNS look up registered. The people I lease my virtual server are providing the DNS servers, but they continue to claim that I have to configure my own DNS servers if I want reverse look up. They claim that the servers they are using as my Domain Servers do not provide the reverse look up function (they claim it is disabled). They claim I am the only client who is having this problem, and that it is either AOL’s fault for insisting on reverse dns lookup before acceptine email, or it is responsibility to set up reverse dns lookup if I want it.

I am going nuts with this…how can they possibly be selling hosting packages and NOT provide reverse dns lookup???

How could any of the sites they host ever send anything to AOL? Surely AOL is not the only big server to reject mail coming from domains that cannot be looked up in reverse.

I do not know why they refuse to just do it. for me
How can they sell me a hosting package that does not allow sending email to anybody on AOL?

When a consultant set up a firewall and exchange email server for me, they told me to have my ISP set up a reverse DNS lookup for my email server. I am in the process of switching ISPs and reconfiguring the firewall.

Can I have my new ISP set up a new reverse lookup for the new IP address of my email server, while the other still exisits?

In other works can I have two reverse lookups (IP addresses) pointing to the same name (ex. mail.mydomain.com)?

I am being given the run around by a person I purchased something from on ebay. I know he lives in liberal Kansas and have his name, the name that the ebay account is under and the name that the papypal account is under, but, I don’t have an address or working phone number to narrow results down with. I know some places list email address on a reverse lookup like the reverse yellow pages do. Can someone help. He has stolen close to 10 grand from me and other ebay users.
thanks

I did a reverse IP address lookup on an email received from a "lost family member"(he says he’s in Costa Rica, but we believe he’s in Chicago or thereabouts). When I did the reverse lookup of a recent email, it pointed to Illinois as the email servers source. Is there any possibility that this email could have come from Costa Rica, even though the reverse search showed Illinois as the source email server site? Or is the IP address reverse lookup country specific?

I used www.IP2location.com

Hope this makes sense?
Is the reverse lookup country specific?

What is an email reverse lookup and what is it used for?
Does it strictly provide who owns that email address. Surely privacy isnt invaded.

Feb 23 15:13:05 dell postfix/smtp[29868]: 734C01A1DB4: host f.mx.mail.yahoo.com[209.191.88.247] refused to talk to me: 421 Message from (#.#.#.#) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html

I of course checked out the link, but it was no help. Someone suggested that a reverse DNS lookup does not point to the domain I am sending email with. It does not as I am using a cable Internet connection and it resolves to their host name. (342874.il.chicago.rcn.net or similar) What do I enter into my DNS to make a reverse lookup find mydomain.com?

somebody sent me an email from hotmail and i’ve been trying to do a reverse lookup on the name with no luck. Can somebody help me or give me a suggestion please. I paid to a company that offers public record but that was a rip off.
thanks

I try to open email and it will say cannot open data store. I did basic diagnostics and I tried to map a couple of network drives and everything works on every other computer accept this one. I made sure all the odbc connections were correct and not corrupt and I xchecked to make sure that in the active directory this user had all permissions to connect to the file server. I think it may have something to do with the DNS or reverse-lookup dns Does anyone have any ideas? Suggestions
It is an exhange server running windows nt server 2003 on service pack one. The internet works fine so it is finding the LAN it just won’t recognize the server for the share drives. I try to map a network drive and it can not locate the extention. The workgroup is set correctly the permissions are set correctly I think it has something to do with the dns. Although like I said not sure…Any other info that I need to provide…?

The email address is a yahoo address, and I think it’s a pretty new one, so it should be in a current Yahoo directory or something. But I need to do the REVERSE lookup, since I only have the email address, and not the name. I need to do a FREE search, since this is probably the only time I’ll ever need to do this. I need to find out who is sending offensive emails to my son. Is there any way, without paying for it? Thanks.

Someone stole my identity and from the investigating I’ve done through the companies charged, I have an email address of this person. Unless they are being sneaky, it seems she’s using her first name and middle name in the email. I have verified it as a valid address. I have been trying to find a name or address linked to this, but I don’t want to pay for a reverse lookup that might not get me anywhere. I also suspect it might be a neigbor or even a mail carrier who’s done this. My email provider (which is the same service she’s using) was no help in the customer service dept. I’ve filed a police report, but I so badly want this person found. Anyone have any ideas? If theres a site I can look up of peoples’ names living in my area that doesnt require a last name to be entered, or know of a truly FREE reverse email finder site?