Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:52:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Accepting mail from unqualified mail servers Message-ID: <20010718135230.I69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <2c21652c6681.2c66812c2165@mbox.com.au>; from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:17:05PM %2B1000 References: <2c21652c6681.2c66812c2165@mbox.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 18 July 2001 at 14:17:05 +1000, BSD Freak wrote: > Hi all... > > > I need to be able to accept mail from mail servers that are behind a DMZ > (and hence their hostnames cannot be resolved). It seems by default > FreeBSD does not accept mail from mail servers who hostname cannot be > resloved in the public DNS. Is there anyway to modify this behaviour > (under sendmail on FreeBSD 4.3)? I know this could open me up to spam > but I need to do this.... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated..... The safest way to do this is to add a dummy reverse zone to your DNS, so that *you* can resolve them and nobody else. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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