From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 09:56:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12191 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12185 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02995; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:56:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDAB5A.8B4A4A70@noc.mfn.org>; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:56:40 -0500 Message-ID: <01BDAB5A.8B4A4A70@noc.mfn.org> From: NOC-IPAD To: NOC-IPAD , "'malte@webmore.com'" Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: named/sendmail Guru Question... Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:56:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have a winner! Thanks a MILLION! I've been going in circles with this idiocy for *days*! I am surprised though that the CNAME approach is not RFC-compliant (I initially thought it was, until I was corrected by FBSD [regrading my pr on named-xfer], yet this is! Of course, as long as it works, we're happy! Thanks again! J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT STANDARDS IS THAT THERE ARE SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM! ---------- From: Malte Lance Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 5:05 AM To: NOC-IPAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: named/sendmail Guru Question... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message