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Craig's list says my rDNS is misconfigured, DNSReport says it's not

I just had an email to Craig's list bounce back to me saying that my reverse DNS is misconfigured, although it looks fine to me. I use DNSReports, which reports everything is fine. I have public IPs and reverse DNS delegated to my NS, the only thing I see as abnormal is that DNSReport shows the following:
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OK. The IPs of all of your mail server(s) have reverse DNS (PTR) entries. RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry. Note that this information is cached, so if you changed it recently, it will not be reflected here (see the www.DNSstuff.com Reverse DNS Tool for the current data). The reverse DNS entries are:

137.236.140.75.in-addr.arpa 75-140-236-137.static.ftwo.tx.charter.com. [TTL=85652]
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So I'm wondering if Charter is tacking something extra on, or has something misconfigured on their end?
Bind is latest 9 on Linux
Failed to deliver to 'sale-111111111@craigslist.org'
SMTP module(domain craigslist.org) reports:
 host mxi5s.craigslist.org says:
 554 <unknown[75.140.236.137]>: Client host rejected: rDNS/DNS validation failed. Please setup matching DNS and rDNS records: http://bind8nt.meiway.com/itsaDNSmess.cfm

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Go through the lookup and Diagnostic test of www.mxtoolbox.com and let me know what it tells you.
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Thanks.
I get:

RESULT: mail.novaderm.com
Banner: mail.novaderm.com ESMTP CommuniGate Pro 5.1.14 [31 ms]
Connect Time: 0.031 seconds - Good
Transaction Time: 2.234 seconds - Good
Relay Check: OK - This server is not an open relay.
Rev DNS Check: OK - 75.140.236.137 resolves to 75-140-236-137.static.ftwo.tx.charter.com
GeoCode Info: Geocoding server is unavailable
Session Transcript: HELO please-read-policy.mxtoolbox.com
250 mail.novaderm.com is pleased to meet you [47 ms]
MAIL FROM:  
250 test@mxtoolbox.com sender accepted [31 ms]
RCPT TO:  
571 test@mxtoolbox.com prohibited. We do not relay [2062 ms]
QUIT
221 mail.novaderm.com CommuniGate Pro SMTP closing connection [31 ms]

Which tells me Charter doesn't have the reverse DNS delegated correctly, no?
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