Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:02:45 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "May be forged"? Message-ID: <20030920023245.GA16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200309190320.H8J3KL5M031529@asarian-host.net> References: <200309190044.H8J0IU5M025025@asarian-host.net> <200309190056.H8J0U35M025526@asarian-host.net> <20030919025620.GT37023@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200309190320.H8J3KL5M031529@asarian-host.net>
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On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 3:20:21 +0000, Mark wrote:
> On Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM, Mark wrote:
>>
>>>> Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs
>>>> in> 8.12.10:
>>>>
>>>> AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged),
>>>> authid=admin
>>>>
>>>> That is odd; why would it suddenly say "may be forged"?
>>>
>>> Hmm, this wouldn't, by any chance, have anything to do with Verisign's
>>> latest DNS crap, would it? Kinda like a preemptive caution that a "net"
>>> domain might be fake?
>>
>> No, this is the result of a failed reverse DNS lookup or a failed
>> consistency check between forward and reverse DNS. Given that the
>> address is in the non-routable RFC 1918 range, this is to be expected.
>
> Then why does it not occur in 8.12.9? If I start my 8.12.9 sendmail, it does
> NOT say "may be forged". Did something change in-between versions?
It would seem so.
> Here is why I think it seems related to Verisign somehow:
>
> asarian-host: {root} % nslookup my-xp-machine.net
> Name: my-xp-machine.net
> Address: 64.94.110.11
Ah. But this is an invalid domain.
> Maybe 8.12.10 picks up on the IP-mismatch?
But we're looking at the reverse lookup first. There's no global
reverse lookup for that network, but that doesn't mean that there
aren't local name servers which handle it.
> But that still does not explain why my 8.12.9 sendmail does not say
> "may be forged". And if I change /etc/hosts to have 192.168.1.3
> called "my-xp-machine.ORG", then the error goes away, in 8.12.10
> too!
Yes, that's a feature, not a bug.
Greg
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