From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 00:17:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FF016A402 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:17:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B56E13C46E for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:17:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 59421 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2007 00:17:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=n1skrrx2XYsxkEx94+P3lNK4G/xrQRWSUD6uPkFAGWquG/CSO6pWm0Ko07EMjNeGh5efCaN/OHJUje0CeUq7E8ZxpovAOHsCkrqnC8zSJc0tDHX4nyakTcKvdlcsRk0oCTWhawEIJRDQlfKTp8U0oeZkgxrUG6Gb2MCmJtHDy+w= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2007 00:17:48 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 6IfVTg4VM1kA0KPoBpAF8.V70yR6fcN4oBQvDoahMe678dtuzfsm4feoFmx8qlCIKF5n6EZXf5a2sGZfUmd8FTBe66Y0O4uGtBdZ5LZ2SJ0eJEIytFuXxOKjL8J9llIKcr6qU_qRudrPPxRryink.d5rNQ-- In-Reply-To: <20070313011458.0f3534fd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <6660f1280703110845w52b8babapf2814da0ac6424ae@mail.gmail.com> <56A5B5E4-5644-4C50-9346-5EC9A372C3DB@goldmark.org> <20070312170530.65898c23@gumby.homeunix.com> <9b8f6952375affce2f85577c9c2792b6@prodigy.net> <20070313011458.0f3534fd@gumby.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <493e2590c7f615d9fb9db209919e147d@prodigy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:17:44 -0800 To: RW X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: getting mail to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:17:51 -0000 On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 > jekillen wrote: > >> >> On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: >> >>> The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control >>> of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, >>> you can stay off the dynamic lists. It doesn't help to have a >>> static address if your reverse dns looks like 12-43-545-example.net >>> >> >> Thank you for your reply; >> One of my machines (the one I use all the time and use to send and >> receive >> e-mai) does have an ISP assigned name. But the others are FQDN's that >> I have registered. One even has .net as the top level domain and that >> is one I am planning on using for the mail server. >> > > Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and > reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the > moment you appear to have the following reverse DNS for the address > range 75.7.236.224 - 75.7.236.231: > > $ for i in `jot 8 224` ; do dig +short -x 75.7.236.$i ; done > adsl-75-7-236-224.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-225.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-226.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-227.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-228.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-229.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-230.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > adsl-75-7-236-231.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. > OK, It appears that it is the ISPs name servers who are responding. When I call up my sights I get to the machines they are on according to my present DNS setup. try www.brushandbard.com Jeff K