Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:09:29 -0500 (EST) From: Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.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: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212290009060.18613-100000@pooh.ASARian.org> In-Reply-To: <20021228210308.D12635@citusc.usc.edu>
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:34:28PM -0500, Fuzzy wrote: > > > > 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? > > 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. I see. Thank you. Fuz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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