From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 5:23:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04AA37B407; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15h93O-0007aU-00; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:23:42 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:23:42 +0100 From: Ceri To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why, this is new (and BAD, BAD, BAD!!) ... Message-ID: <20010912132342.A29109@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010911110508.A22305@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <20010912121458.CAA1B37B401@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010912121458.CAA1B37B401@hub.freebsd.org>; from jmb@hub.freebsd.org on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:14:58AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:14:58AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler said: > > yes it is BAD that your machine claims to be: > cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk > when > that name resolves to 10.5.4.106 That name only resolves to 10.5.4.106 because it has to, otherwise I cannot mail the list. Read the rest of the thread. > why not use cabletel1.cableol.net (194.168.3.4) on the helo line? > why does the box claim to be what it is not? Because that's the IP address of the firewall. Read the rest of the post you just replied to. Also, I officially pronounced this thread dead about 4 hours ago. Can we leave it that way, please ? Ceri -- # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message