From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 17:42:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.3.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BF737B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.12.3/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g4U0gs5N010737; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:42:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g4U0gsL01779; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:42:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:42:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Steven Lake , Subject: Re: Need to speak to... In-Reply-To: <20020530103923.A552@k7.mavetju> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep, it's got a dns record. If you do an NSlookup on our IP it resolves the name correctly, but after doing some dig queries I get good hits on every DNS server I did, except the freebsd.org dns servers. On Thu, 30 May 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:22:25PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote: > > HI. I need to speak to whoever handles the website and mail > > servers for freebsd.org and its dns. We're trying to post to your mailing > > list off one of our servers but it keeps getting rejected, host not found, > > yet we have all the correct pointer records and A records needed. However > > I did see what I think is a bad DNS entry in your zonefile via dig. > > Please contact me so that we can discuss this and resolve it as soon as > > possible. Thanks. > > I'm not handling it, but I know that the mailserver rejects mail > if the IP address of your host can't be resolved. So make sure the > DNS server authoritative for your netblock has a PTR record for > your host! > > See also: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message