From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 17:01:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3B037B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0628443FA3 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from diz@linuxpowered.com) Received: from linuxpowered.com (12-238-50-170.client.attbi.com[12.238.50.170](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <200307140001140120056co8e> (Authid: jdisnard); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:01:15 +0000 Message-ID: <3F11F2BB.6020703@linuxpowered.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:00:59 -0500 From: Jon Disnard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug filing broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:01:24 -0000 You might try to investigate the issue first. Try "http://www.dnsreport.com", and see if any red flags appear in the MX record section, or in another area that might affect mail. Its a common technique to reject mail from domains that do not follow the RFC specs. Also, you might try to send word about this to the postmaster of freebsd.org. Best, -Jon Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > I tried to file a bug for one of my -CURRENT machines using send-pr and > got the following result back: > > >> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >> >> (reason: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found) > > > Presumably this means that the mailer is trying to reverse lookup my > hostname, and it doesn't exist. That's true, as I have been experimenting > with this stuff behind my firewall on my private net. > > Fine. I'll file a bug via the web interface. > > Go to: > > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html > > >>The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. > > > > This is annoying. A user is already peeved that FreeBSD has a bug, and > now the bug sending mechanism has a bug. In addition, the web bug > submission is offline. > > The send to FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org should not have failed in the > first place. Even if FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org needs spam > protection, all of the emails coming into it have a signature which makes > spam analysis incredibly easy. Please reopen FreeBSD-gnats-submit so that > it accepts all input and rejects based upon content. > > Another idea is to rewrite send-pr so that it submits bug reports directly > to a port on a server somewhere. Using port 80 and a dedicated receive > server would get around firewalling issues. > > The alternative is to reopen the web form. However, I find send-pr much > more useful (less cutting and pasting). > > Submitting a bug report should be the easiest, most robust and error free > task the system carries out. > > Thanks, > -a > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"