From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 13 8:28:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CCEB37BEE9 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 30587 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Jun 2000 15:28:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 15:28:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: Peter Lockhart , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A records on mail domain In-Reply-To: <20000613162312.A76235@irrelevant.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 simond@irrelevant.org wrote: ... : Any chance they could be talking about the machine sending mail rather : than the domain? I've seen some mailservers refuse a connection when : the person sending doesn't have matching forward and reverse DNS : (eg freebsd.org :) Ah, if they were one in the same I could see that happening. My Qmail does the same thing on the _host_ sending the machine, it doesn't do a DNS check on the domain itself as that would be silly (imho) I think we need more information here :) : -- : Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org Matt Heckaman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5RlMbdMMtMcA1U5ARAp+xAJwNH6+q00dgVHEQLSAtkXuAW15gLQCgvWgc dCILgodLOuoCkXu3FBLPbA0= =Girm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message