Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:10:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Awfulhak.com (was pdksh) Message-ID: <19980511121002.S7546@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805110210.AA13144@mozart>; from John W. DeBoskey on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 10:10:03PM -0400 References: <19980511111319.M7546@freebie.lemis.com> <199805110210.AA13144@mozart>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 22:10:03 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: >> On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 20:58:08 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I seem to be unable to send mail to brian@Awfulhak.org... I'm not >>> sure why. >> (snip) >> You are trying to send mail via a system that doesn't want to do it >> for you. You've left out the name of the system in the message above, >> but I'd recommend that you stop trying to use it. > > I'm not so sure about what you say below... (I've moved it above, where it belongs). > The machine on our campus which is directly connected to the outside > world (we live behind a firewall), appears to have been talking > directly to the Awfulhak.org domain directly. I'm on machine mozart, > which talks to our external machine lamb, which talked to > Awfulhak.com. > > The transcript follows: I changed From to Xrom in the first line. You don't need to do that. The mailer will automatically quote it. > Xrom MAILER-DAEMON Sun May 10 09:22 EDT 1998 > Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> > Received: from lamb.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) > id AA11413; Sun, 10 May 1998 09:22:29 -0400 > Received: from localhost (localhost) > by lamb.sas.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with internal id JAA27460; > Sun, 10 May 1998 09:22:28 -0400 (EDT) > Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 09:22:28 -0400 (EDT) > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@lamb.sas.com> > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown > Message-Id: <199805101322.JAA27460@lamb.sas.com> > To: <jwd@unx.sas.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; > boundary="JAA27460.894806548/lamb.sas.com" > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > > This is a MIME-encapsulated message > > --JAA27460.894806548/lamb.sas.com > > The original message was received at Sun, 10 May 1998 09:22:16 -0400 (EDT) > from mozart.unx.sas.com [192.58.184.8] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <brian@Awfulhak.org> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to awfulhak.org.: >>>> RCPT To:<brian@Awfulhak.org> > <<< 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... we do not relay jwd@unx.sas.com > 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... User unknown Hmm, yes, now that I see the transcript, you're right. I've just tried it myself, and had the same results. In any case, I'm not sure why you are contacting this system at all. According to DNS, you should be connecting with his MX systems, which are relay.iuinc.com and mail.iuinc.com. They accept mail to anybody, including you (see the other message I just sent out). It would appear that the mailer you are using on mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) is not working correctly. What is this? If it's an old sendmail, you should definitely upgrade it: it must be a real security risk. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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