From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 20:15:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-2.smartworld.net (mrs-2-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E3D37BFD2 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (1Cust36.tnt3.calgary.ab.da.uu.net [64.10.177.36]) by mrs-2.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA35430; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:15:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Sendmail and DNS Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:58:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:03 PM Crist J. Clark 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=, ctladdr= >> (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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message