From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 03:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24094 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 03:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA24085 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 03:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.174]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 09 Jul 1998 12:09:20 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01399; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01BDAAFE.545873E0@noc.mfn.org> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 12:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: NOC-IPAD Subject: RE: named/sendmail Guru Question... Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Set this in your zone-file for mfn.org: ; for mailers ignoring MX-records in a 204.238.179.3 just after the MX-specification. Malte On 09-Jul-98 NOC-IPAD wrote: > The original message was received at Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT) > from root@localhost > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > sysadmin@mfn.org > A question for the named/sendmail gurus present: > > Beginning with our coversion from NT name services to bind (as > distributed with 2.2.5R), we have had a problem with some (very > few actually) domains attempting to mail us - AOL is the worst > of the problems. All outgoing mail is ok, as is local mail, and > incoming from almost everywhere, but... > > We found a way to stop this problem, but it is not RFC1700 > compliant: by adding a dns record, > > mfn.org. IN CNAME greeves.mfn.org > > (greeves is our mail hub) the problem disappears, but so does the > ability to maintain secondary bind servers (we already filed GNATS > on it). > > Does anybody know what to do about this? And, are we > the only ones who have this problem? > > Attached is a perfectly typical header from tonights batch of notices... > > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 sysadmin@mfn.org... Host unknown (Name server: mfn.org: no data known) > > ----- Original message follows ----- > > Received: from CrystalRun@aol.com > by imo16.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id FJYNa27696 > for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT) > From: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 09-Jul-98 Time: 12:00:14 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message