Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:59:11 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>, "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: "Randall Hopper" <aa8vb@yahoo.com>, "Edwin Groothuis" <edwin@mavetju.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Subject: RE: ARG!!! 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostnam Message-ID: <004b01c0baf6$fb98f340$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <71469753.20010401222109@binity.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter Hop > >Although it is very cute to distribute all outgoing mail from your home >box directly, there will probably be a lot more sites that will bounce >your mail, even when reverse DNS has been set up for your IP. See >http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ for details on this. > This is only true if you are attempting to set up a mailserver without the participation of your ISP. Seeing as how your ISP takes the brunt of the complaints for an end-users misconfigured mailserver, I fail to see why any end-user thinks it's unreasonable to work with the ISP when setting up a home mailserver. With us, people that want to run mailservers off of an intermittent dialup line that do their own mailing, whether using a getem-with-POP3 solution like fetchmail, or doing it the proper way with ETRN, are given a static IP number that's in a completely different subnet than our dialup subnet, and thus don't have interference with solutions like DUL. This is the proper way to do this and it's how any decent ISP sets up their network. I'm very sympathetic to users that want to run their own mailserver, but I have no sympathy whatsoever if they try to go behind my back and use one of those dynamic dns server thingies on the Internet to get a matching reverse address for a dynamic IP they have pulled out of the dialup pool. I think that people that run those sorts of DNS servers ought to be lined up against the wall and shot at dawn. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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