Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:03:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021228210308.D12635@citusc.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212282231070.18241-100000@pooh.ASARian.org>; from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org on Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:34:28PM -0500 References: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212282231070.18241-100000@pooh.ASARian.org>
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--XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:34:28PM -0500, Fuzzy wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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? freebsd.org does not care if your reverse DNS mapping points back to the name you identified yourself with, it only checks that the name the server IDs itself as when submitting email resolves to the correct IP address. Many people (including me) have a working setup where reverse DNS mappings do not give back the original hostname we ID with. Kris --XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+DoIMWry0BWjoQKURAo4IAJ9aYhEKH2vo3256H5d/m8phZ9aOWgCgxxcm MYUL79f1HRUklrHqRuVraEY= =Q1VM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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