From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 28 16:29:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from groggy.anc.acsalaska.net (groggy.anc.acsalaska.net [208.151.119.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED33037B42F for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by groggy.anc.acsalaska.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3SNSih60070 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:28:44 GMT (envelope-from groggy11@mail.com) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:28:44 GMT From: groggy11@mail.com Message-Id: <200204282328.g3SNSih60070@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> X-Authentication-Warning: groggy.anc.acsalaska.net: abc set sender to groggy11@mail.com using -f Subject: Re: bad isp - dns X-Mailer: Umail v2.3 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > this is a problem in regards to FreeBSD maillists. > > > FBSD maillists do a DNS lookup on any host sending > > > email. my ISP refuses to pass on DNS queries to > > > my server, so clients on my network cannot > > > have their name->number mappings answered. > > > > > > i have had this problem for years, and > > > the ISP is the major telephone/communications > > > company for the city. i don't guess i have any > > > "rights" to force them to pass on DNS queries > > > to my server - so what can i do??? > > > > Use nat so that the outside world only sees one IP that has proper forward > > and reverse mapping. i do use "user ppp" -nat. i don't understand fully. i would guess that the freebsd mailserver checks the mail headers, or the smtp server trying to send, and i don't see how nat affects this? thanks, please Cc off list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message