From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 28 2:20: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFAD37B419 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0003.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.3] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 171kqP-0001iK-00; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:19:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCBBE90.875EA3CB@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:19:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: groggy11@mail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad isp - dns References: <200204280309.g3S39An58790@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org groggy11@mail.com wrote: > this is a problem in regards to FreeBSD maillists. > FBSD maillists do a DNS lookup on any host sending > email. my ISP refuses to pass on DNS queries to > my server, so clients on my network cannot > have their name->number mappings answered. > > i have had this problem for years, and > the ISP is the major telephone/communications > company for the city. i don't guess i have any > "rights" to force them to pass on DNS queries > to my server - so what can i do??? > > (besides change ISPs, there are various reasons > why that is an unacceptable solution). I guess you must be talking about reverse delegations, since forward delegations for authority for DNS servers is based on the domain registration. My suggestion would be to select one of: o Get a forwarding account that uses SMTP AUTH for outbound mail relay by paying someone else for the service o Convince your ISP to do the delegation o Relay all your outbound email through your ISP's SMTP server that's there for normal relay for their normal clients -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message