Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:43:00 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> To: Damien Tougas <damientougas@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to send e-mail to freebsd.org domain Message-ID: <200210120143.00345.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021012035309.49324.qmail@web13206.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021012035309.49324.qmail@web13206.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 11 October 2002 11:53 pm, Damien Tougas appears to have=20 written: > Hello, > > I am currently unable to send e-mail to the FreeBSD > mailing lists through my mail server (hence I am > sending this using a Yahoo mail account). Your mail > servers reject my mail saying that they cannot find my > hostname. > > My server's name is server.merchantsbarter.com, and my This name does not resolve. > IP address is 198.78.66.185. Name resolution works The number does, though. > both in forward and reverse with no conflicts in the > name, and this has been verified from several > locations across the US. Well, it doesn't validate from this location. > > I think at one point, probably about 2 months ago > (when I was initially setting up the server) I tried > to send a message to one of the mailing lists but did > not have a reverse DNS lookup properly configured. Do > your mail servers cache those prior attempts? If so, > what do I have to do to have my server's name/IP > removed from this cache? Fix your DNS entry so your name resolves. =20 > > Thanks for your help. Good luck. - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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