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From: Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD
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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


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