Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:26:35 -0500 From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: <Dan@cs.cmu.edu>, <"Pelleg <daniel+fbsdq"@pelleg.org>, "Damien Tougas" <damientougas@yahoo.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to send e-mail to freebsd.org domain Message-ID: <00ca01c2724f$3f2c5cd0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <15784.20201.719661.480438@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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Damien--- It seems quite apparent that "server.merchantsbarter.com" is NOT listed in the DNS records for the zone. I have been wrong before, but it seems apparent, at least from 5 minutes of nslookup and dig from dns1.name-services.com. Any chance they forgot to add it to the zone files? "merchantsbarter.com" www.merchantsbarter.com, and "mail.merchantsbarter.com" all resolve. The IP addy you gave resolves to "merchantsbarter.com", not "server.merchantsbarter.com." There is a difference. It could also be that you chose an arbitrary name for the server's hostname and not one listed in the DNS. Services will run in this fashion, but mail sent by the server will use the server's name. You can easily avoid this problem by renaming the server to one of the listed names above. Issue this, for example, as root: $hostname www.merchantsbarter.com So, 2 or 3 things that may help: Talk to your people at name-services.com and have them add the name, or change the name of the server to something that IS listed, or change the mailer to use a different hostname in its output. HTH, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Pelleg" <daniel+fbsdq@pelleg.org> To: "Damien Tougas" <damientougas@yahoo.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: RE: Unable to send e-mail to freebsd.org domain > > > My server's name is server.merchantsbarter.com, and my > > IP address is 198.78.66.185. Name resolution works > > both in forward and reverse with no conflicts in the > > name, and this has been verified from several > > locations across the US. > > Your forward lookup fails for me, from two different networks in the > eastern US. Your reverse lookup looks ok. > > As far as I know there isn't a "bad host" cache on the freebsd servers. At > least in previous occasions they've started taking mail from me as soon as > I fixed the problems at my end. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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