From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 19:34: 8 2002 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 A8F8C37B401; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:34:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pooh.ASARian.org (rdu26-76-083.nc.rr.com [66.26.76.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A8943E4A; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:34:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Received: from localhost (fuzzy@localhost.ASARian.org [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.ASARian.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBT3YSwt018278; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:34:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:34:28 -0500 (EST) From: Fuzzy To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: lewiz , Harry Tabak , Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes Organization: ASARian Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote: > No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is > a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about > 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail > is delivered. I'm confused. I have an IP that has a lot of forward names, but the PTR points at the ISPs name. I don't have any trouble with sendmail sending and receiving internet email. even tho the PTR returns one of many name for the IP? fuz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message