From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 30 11:13:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from greg.cex.ca (h24-207-26-100.dlt.dccnet.com [24.207.26.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 038EB37B416 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 61119 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Mar 2002 19:14:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:14:10 -0800 From: Greg White To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd.org dns Message-ID: <20020330111409.B60561@greg.cex.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203300806240930.26A8750A@10.25.0.4> <20020330105415.A60561@greg.cex.ca> <20020330110030.A13938@zardoc.esmtp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020330110030.A13938@zardoc.esmtp.org>; from freebsd+stable@esmtp.org on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:00:30AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat Mar 03/30/02, 2002 at 11:00:30AM -0800, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Greg White wrote: > > On Sat Mar 03/30/02, 2002 at 08:06:24AM -1000, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > > > What's up with the broken dns for freebsd.org? > > > > > > Mar 30 07:56:08 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=, relay=[216.136.204.119], reject=450 4.7.1 ... Relaying temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for 216.136.204.119 > > > Mar 30 07:56:09 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: from=, size=3226, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=[216.136.204.119] > > > > > > I've got a zillion entries like the above in my maillog starting from last nite... > > > > You actually defer mail delivery based on the availability of PTR > > records? This is, IMHO, a _spectacularly_ bad idea, and one of the > > The OP has misconfigured his machine. It assumes that this is a > relaying attempt. Hence the error message (with an explanation). Apologies to all. I caught only the 'Cannot resolve PTR', I should have read more closely. :( Sigh... Breaking my rule about posting before coffee often gets me in trouble. I do stand by my in-addr.arpa diagnosis -- I checked it again, and I've had coffee now... ;) -- Greg White To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message