Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:12:52 +1100 From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: jwillson@gargoyle.apana.org.au, jeremywillson@yahoo.com.au Cc: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>, questions@freebsd.org, chris@i13i.com Subject: Re: Difficulty asking questions Message-ID: <43CA6674.98FAF2A7@nimnet.asn.au>
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gday,
sending this to both of your addresses, and -questions. You should get
three. If you reply, esp from your apana address, I could check a) that
you can post to me at least :) and b) see what the headers suggest about
reverse IP resolution.
Micah said:
>I had the same problem, I could receive I just couldn't send to /any/
>freebsd.org list. I can't track down the emails right now, but I
>believe it was either postmaster@freebsd.org or freebsd-questions-owner@
>who helped me figure out that my ISP had DNS issues. With his help I
>emailed my ISP support line and they fixed their problem (I was
>surprised!) So you should probably start by emailing one of the address
>I listed to see if they can help you track down your problem.
And Chris wrote:
>Normally this happens when your mail server doesnt reversly resolve to >the domain name so if mail.i13i.com doesnt reverse to mail.i13i.com
>freebsd.org's mailing lists will reject the mail. As this happened when i
>was hosting my site using my DSL wasnt until i got a ded that i relaised
>what it was.
Seems the problem is indeed (at least temporarily) APANA's reverse DNS:
gaia: {301} dig -x 203.3.126.1
; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6
^^^^^^^^
;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;; 1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN
;; Total query time: 73580 msec
^^^^^
which most likely explains why freebsd.org's mx is ignoring your mail.
Probably worth mailing Matt Geier as suggested, and your local Brisbane
apana tech bods; I expect they'll want to know ..
Oh, it's worse than that .. ns.apana.org.au seems currently broken:
smithi on paqi% dig @ns.apana.org.au. -x 203.3.126.1
[..]
;; res_nsend to server ns.apana.org.au. 192.188.107.12: Operation timed
out
smithi on paqi% dig @ns.apana.org.au. apana.org.au
[..]
;; res_nsend to server ns.apana.org.au. 192.188.107.12: Operation timed
out
Trying another apana.org.au listed ns:
gaia: {304} dig @warrane.connect.com.au. -x 203.3.126.1
[..]
;; QUESTIONS:
;; 1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWERS:
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200 RP support.brisbane.apana.org.au.
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200 TXT "APANA Brisbane"
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200 PTR gargoyle.apana.org.au.
;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200 NS yarrina.connect.com.au.
126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200 NS ns.apana.org.au.
;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
yarrina.connect.com.au. 3600 A 192.189.54.17
ns.apana.org.au. 3600 A 192.188.107.12
.. but ns.apana.org.au fails to provide that PTR response right now ..
unless apana has _my_ server blacklisted of course :)
I'd be mailing that RP too (guess it's support@brisbane.apana.org.au)
Cheers, Ian
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