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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: reverse DNS not all bad
To: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:39:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au
In-Reply-To: <199711280356.NAA09500@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Nov 28, 97 01:56:46 pm
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Stephen McKay wrote:
> 
> On Friday, 28th November 1997, "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote:
> 
> >here's a spam that reverse DNS killed.
> >notice the "Authenticated sender is <news@10.1.2.2>"
> >now, admittedly, it was sent to only one person....
> >but we must be on the right track ;)
> >
> >now if everyone would fix their DNS
> >200.241.133.2
> >146.164.5.200
> >207.6.35.100
> 
> Are you referring to the recent '550 Access denied' from hub.freebsd.org?
> If so, there must have been something else going on because our gateway
> has always reverse resolved, and still does.  Even from freebsd.org:

	are you still getting rejected?

	the '550 Access denied' was a different problem, which has been
	resolved.  sadly it took about 24 hours to get fixed.  had people
	sent me mail earlier i could have fixed it earlier.

	postmaster@freebsd.org

Nov 28 01:16:48 hub sendmail[2460]: NOQUEUE: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[200.241.133.2], arg2=200.241.133.2, relay=root@localhost, reject=451 Domain does not resolve

hub jmb[168] nslookup 200.241.133.2
Server:  who.cdrom.com
Address:  204.216.27.3

*** who.cdrom.com can't find 200.241.133.2: Non-existent host/domain

	this is a problem for those folks, whoever they are.
	they need to fix their DNS.

Nov 28 01:59:48 hub sendmail[5051]: NOQUEUE: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=mbg.vsnl.net.in.in-addr.arpa, arg2=202.54.12.3, relay=root@localhost, reject=451 Domain does not resolve

	this one resloves now, could have been delayed before.

hub jmb[167] nslookup 202.54.12.3
Server:  who.cdrom.com
Address:  204.216.27.3

Name:    mbg.vsnl.net.in.in-addr.arpa
Address:  202.54.12.3

jmb