Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:17:57 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: Anthony Kim <niceshorts@yahoo.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Having trouble with Envelope sender verification Message-ID: <20011202181329.K1485-100000@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20011202220306.GA25820@boethius.telocity.com>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Anthony Kim wrote: > A lot of people have the same problem: > > $ host -t ptr freebsdportal.com. > There is an entry for this host, but it doesn't have a Pointer > record. > > Also, I noticed another problem with your DNS. > > $ host -t ptr mail.freebsdportal.com. > mail.freebsdportal.com is a nickname for freebsdportal.com > There is an entry for this host, but it doesn't have a Pointer > record. > > -- Hmm... would it help if I did not have mail.xyz a CNAME? I set up my zone record quite some time ago, and I don't think making a mail a CNAME is a good idea. What if I changed ----------------------------------------------------------- freebsdportal.com. IN A 24.9.218.175 www.freebsdportal.com. IN CNAME freebsdportal.com. mail.freebsdportal.com. IN CNAME freebsdportal.com. ----------------------------------------------------------- to ----------------------------------------------------------- freebsdportal.com. IN A 24.9.218.175 www.freebsdportal.com. IN CNAME freebsdportal.com. mail.freebsdportal.com. IN A 24.9.218.175 ----------------------------------------------------------- Is that legal? Would that work? > Looking at your reverse lookup zone, I find: > 218.9.24.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN NS ns1.home.net. > > I don't know how responsive @home is going to be, sorry. Can't I control this if I run my own name server? Thanks ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- Today is a fine day for Ruby programming. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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