From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 0:56:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15B937B402 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card4-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16SaFi-0006Hl-00; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:56:30 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16SaFe-0000t1-00; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:56:26 +0000 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:56:26 +0000 From: Ceri To: Bob Bomar Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail error: 450 Message-ID: <20020121085626.GC3147@rhadamanth> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:59:45PM -0600, Bob Bomar wrote: > I have sendmail running and listening. But when I tried to send any mail to > questions@freebsd.org, I get an error message in my /var/log/maillog saying > that message could not be delivered here is part of the message: > > ... > stat=Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [IP > address] > > I have a cable modem with a dynamic IP, so I am useing www.dyndns.org to > supply dynamic DNS. That's not the problem. Your IP address does not have a reverse DNS entry. Bug your ISP. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message