From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 13: 1:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAB137B407 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f97K1lC46900; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:01:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:01:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: groggy@iname.com Cc: freebsd-questions , def@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net Subject: Re: questions list Message-ID: <20011007150147.A37411@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200110071855.SAA00595@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200110071855.SAA00595@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Oct 07), groggy@iname.com said: > i apologize for asking this question, as i have asked it a few times > over the years with replies i could not: > > 1) find resolution to (being told my ISP wasn't doing some reverse lookup). Call your ISP and complain that they don't provide reverse DNS for their IPs > freebsd-questions bounces mail back: > > a) when you connect with a dynamic PPP account and use your local > sendmail (instead of the ISP MTA). > > b) when you are on a private ethernet behind a "ppp -nat" connection > and use your machines local sendmail (instead of the gateways > MTA). I do both and have had no problems sending emails. For case #1, make sure the IP handed to you by the PPP server has a valid reverse. For case #2, make sure the NAT server has a valid reverse. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message