From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 21:47:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3944816A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:47:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tech@nano.net) Received: from mail.smallweb.com (mail.smallweb.com [216.85.125.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BED43D48 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:47:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tech@nano.net) Received: from [216.85.125.9] (sixpence.nano.net [216.85.125.9]) by mail.smallweb.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 5.3.11) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:46:54 -0600 Message-ID: <43332667.2030906@nano.net> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:47:19 -0600 From: Steve Suhre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Suhre References: <20050922120047.825E016A429@hub.freebsd.org> <20050922184632.GA16321@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <20050922184632.GA16321@lava.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BGP & reverse dns X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:47:38 -0000 Thanks, I think they figured it out. The customer is always right....sigh.... I used the list because I needed to know if there was a quick fix here, I added them to a spamassassin whitelist. Clifton Royston wrote: >On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:00:47PM +0000, freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org wrote: > > >>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:51:49 -0600 >>From: Steve Suhre >>Subject: BGP & reverse dns >>To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >>Message-ID: <43318195.8000304@nano.net> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >>I have a client who's using BGP on their own network but use our mail >>servers. They're having trouble sending mail because the server here >>can't resolve the IP address back to their network. And if I run the IP >>through DNSStuff.com it returns an infinite loop error. They claim they >>aren't having trouble anywhere else though.... >> >>I don't want to turn off reverse lookups, is there anyway to get around >>this? Or a simple fix on their end? I know nothing about BGP routing... >>We're running sendmail, and spammassassin through procmail. The mail >>problem started recently when we upgraded sendmail and added >>spamassassin, but their DNS/BGP problems have been there for a while.... >> >> > > This question belongs on a different list; I'd normally say >freebsd-questions, but it has nothing to do with FreeBSD at all as far >as I can see. Try inet-access or some similar mailing list which deals >with Internet access and configuration issues. > > To save a little list bandwidth and give you a starting point for >that list, my tip is forget about BGP unless it's proved that there is >a routing problem. The routing protocol your client is running (BGP) >has nothing to do with DNS; these operate on completely different >network layers. Useful tools for resolving DNS problems are "dig", >"host", and "whois"; these will let you tell what name server is >responsible and whether there is a problem with their name servers. > > The immediate question to look into would be who delegated their >address space to them, and what name server is responsible for its >rDNS. > -- Clifton > > > -- Steve Suhre tech@nano.net 719.439.6052 Cell 719.632.2897 Home