Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:42:44 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config... Message-ID: <20040328214244.GB50033@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200403281507.18984.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> References: <20040328202953.GA49832@tao.thought.org> <200403281507.18984.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:07:18PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals > > seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, > > and spam (of course :-|) gets through. > > > > I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that > > may have been causing problems. The only "hint" is from > > a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a > > bounce while sending mail to "kline@though.org" (note: no 't') > > worked. > > > > Any ideas on this? > > either your DNS records are/were hosed, or your MTA is mis-config'd. > > Try http://www.dnsstuff.com to scope out your DNS records, and remember that > changes take some time to propogate. > > Is your MTA sendmail, exim, or what? Are you set up to use a smart host to > relay outgoing mail, or are you sending from your host? Are you receiving on > your host, or POP'ing/IMAP'ing another host? > The long-and-short of it is that I did a grep -r -w though.org after my network friend mentioned how he finally got mail thru to me. sendmail (/etc/mail/* and /etc/namedb/*, and, for that matter, /etc) were okay. This was on my primary nameserver, ns1.thought.org. I 2-checked on other platforms, in /etc/mail/* and same deal. I'll add dnsstuff.com to my hotlist. Right now I use (I believe) dnsreport.com which I check infrequently. *Too* infrequently, obliously! ...I just made some updates and fixed things that were flagged in red. So I'll see how much e-homework I get now; or if my profs got pissed and flunked me for this.... thank you for your time, gary PS: I'be got a pop/imap question...but that can wait.... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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