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From: John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net>
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To: "Ciro Maietta" <geminidomino@earthlink.net>,
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Subject: Re: Sendmail access issue.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:33:05 -0800
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This page http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html
talks about the access.db.

Did you remember to re-gen access.db after tinkering with
access ????

On Thursday 25 April 2002 07:33 pm, Ciro Maietta wrote:
> I'm (trying to) setup a mail server currently running 4.5-STABLE. I've
> configured my sendmail daemon correctly (I think).  I have the following in
> /etc/mail/access:
>
> /etc/mail/access
> 192.168.0                         RELAY
>
>
> My mail server is 192.168.0.250, and from this server I can send mail with
> no incident. However, any time I try to send email from any other host on
> the local network, I receive an error similar to the following (From
> /var/log/maillog)
>
> ****
> Apr 26 23:00:05 aegir sendmail[242]: g3R305X2000242: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> arg1=<geminidomino@earthlink.net>, relay=odhinn.asgard.us [192.168.0.1]
> (may be forged), reject=550 5.7.1 <geminidomino@earthlink.net>... Relaying
> denied. IP name possibly forged [192.168.0.1]
> ***
> but still no dice.  According to an (older) tutorial on the sendmail.org
> website, "IP name possibly forged" is the result of an inconsistant DNS
> server. But when I tested with nslookup,
>
> bash-2.05a# nslookup odhinn.asgardnet.org
> Server:  hermod.asgard.us
> Address:  192.168.0.250
>
> Name:    odhinn.asgardnet.org
> Address:  192.168.0.1
>
> Without fail, this comes up. I am sure there is something I am missing. If
> anyone could help me figure out what it is, I'd be massively grateful. I
> think I provided enough info, if not  I'll be glad to fill in any holes
>
>
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