From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 1 17:17: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680F737B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A73EB78566; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:47:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:47:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: Peter Wemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Notwork solutions (was: who is "postmaster"?) Message-ID: <20011202114701.A61248@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011201004702.95832380D@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 1:21:04 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>> I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail >>> system by mailing to "postmaster" but no-one answers.. >>> >>> so, who IS the postmaster at the moment? >>> >>> I have the .elischer.org domain set up at Netowrk solutions >>> with a contact address of "julian@freebsd.org" >>> however whenever I try change anything in the setup it >>> sends an "Austhorize this" email to the registered >>> email address (julian@freebsd.org). However they >>> never turn up in my mailbox so I can't do anything >>> (like change the contact email address :-) to maintian >>> my domain. Is freebsd.org throwing away mail from >>> network solutions? (are they blackhole'd?) >> >> Would you believe me if I told you that Network Solutions dont know >> how to configure the DNS on their systems? > > thanks.. That's quite amazing.. Yup. I had that problem too. I didn't hack to let them send email, but as a customer I did complain vociferously. Then I moved to Gandi. It really makes you wonder what kind of cowboys are running the Internet nowadays. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message