From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 21:17: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03E937B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F303E43E4A for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0A5GfSP046523; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:16:41 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0A5Ge0f046522; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:16:40 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:16:40 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS / Sendmail Message-ID: <20030110051640.GA46442@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:47:15PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: [...] > I am using PHP to send email to the website users at they request (reminders > etc). Apache runs as user nobody. Server is la.mylocalnet.com on > 12.158.234.68 - DNS is on this server. > > I am getting bounces from bunch of ISPs with an error header like this > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > (reason: 550 rejected: cannot route to sender ) > > > I am assuming that the bounce is happening due to an incorrect reverse DNS - > Am I correct? It's a bit more basic than that: > dig la.mylocalnet.com mx ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> la.mylocalnet.com mx ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; la.mylocalnet.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: la.mylocalnet.com. 10h36m40s IN MX 10 la.mylocalnet.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: mylocalnet.com. 10h36m40s IN NS la.mylocalnet.com. ;; Total query time: 0 msec ;; FROM: xxxxxxxx.chen.org.nz to SERVER: default -- 0.0.0.0 ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 10 18:14:57 2003 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 35 rcvd: 65 There doesn't appear to be a A-record associated with your la.mylocalnet.com entry. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message