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Date:      Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:38:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail problems, part 2
Message-ID:  <199804261538.LAA01761@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804261356.JAA16823@itchy.mosquito.com> from Mosquito Net Admin Account at "Apr 26, 98 09:56:29 am"

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Recently Mosquito Net Admin Account said:
> I tried to update my sendmail including relay filtering,
> and ran into problems. My maillog file filled up with
> error messages saying:

> pr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.204) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.214) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.216) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.219) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.220) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:30 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.224) failed: 1 
> Apr 25 20:25:31 itchy sendmail[1286]: gethostbyaddr(206.205.132.226) failed: 1 
> 
> and any mail originating locally but going out failed with a "Relaying denied"
> error.

> I'm running FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE and sendmail 8.8.7.

> The weird thing is that the IP addresses being looked up DO NOT exist.
> These are dialup customers whose IP addresses are dynamically 
> assigned from ranges:

> 	206.205.132.30 - 206.205.132.119

> Most of the addresses above .118 are unused.

> Any ideas where the problem might be, or a workaround?
> Any ideas?

Well you need to give these IP's some numbers.  I just put the
dynamically allocated range from the Livingston into the system -
gave then names of  du01.my.domain through du??? - meaing dialup 01
through whataever.

Those are also in the sendmail.cR file.   I had to add about 500
for an out of town client to map to their ISP dialup.  A pain but
it works.  

THere may be a better way.

Bill  

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