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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:58:49 -0600
From:      "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com>
To:        <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail and DNS
Message-ID:  <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie>

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On Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:03 PM Crist J. Clark <cristjc@earthlink.net>
wrote:


>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:49:50PM -0500, Cain, Justin wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>              As far as I can tell my DNS info looks good and it does point
>> to the right IP, Although Im wondering if it has something to do with 8.10
>> sendmail and something I missed. Im clueless in ths matter and would
>> appreciate any help you guys can provide. Please reply to this email with
>> suggestions.
>
>Your address does not reverse-lookup.
>
>  % nslookup 204.177.57.156
>  Server:  rns1.earthlink.net
>  Address:  207.217.126.81
>
>  *** rns1.earthlink.net can't find 204.177.57.156: Non-existent host/domain
>
>Even if the A record works.
>
>> jcain@kivex.com
>>
>> Error Message listed in my maillog:
>>
>> Jun 21 20:27:52 scully sendmail[633]: e5LMkMb00453:
>> to=<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, ctladdr=<asmo@scully.gothworld.com>
>> (1000/1
>> 000), delay=01:41:30, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=esmtp, pri=390657,
>> relay=hub.freebsd.org. [204.216.27.18], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 Client
>> host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [204.177.57.156]
>
>Seems like a pretty clear error message to me.
>--
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

Would you know of a web reference that would explain the diff.
between dns / reverse-dns. I'm also assuming that
lookups / reverse-lookups refer to the same thing. Tia...

-duke



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