From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 9:29: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C6937B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA41918; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:28:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:28:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Randall Hopper Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, aa8vb@nc.rr.com Subject: Re: ARG!!! 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostnam In-Reply-To: <20010401142603.896.qmail@web1005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds to me like you just dont have in-addr.arpa set up correctly On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Randall Hopper wrote: > I have not been able to post to the FreeBSD lists for a fairly long time, and > I'd put posting aside for a while. I came back to it today and _still_ no > luck. > > I've got all masquarading on in my sendmail .mc file, and that doesn't fix it > (it doesn't affect the SMTP EHLO host reported). > > I even hacked sendmail this morning and told it to say "EHLO www.freebsd.org" > and "EHLO smtp-server.freebsd.org", and that didn't please FreeBSD's mail > server. So what does the silly thing want? > > My real DNS hostname will not be meaningful to freebsd.org. I am on a > masquaraded internal network here at my house, and nowhere on my box does it > even know what the real DHCP IP assigned to my firewall machine is, nor whether > that IP has a DNS entry. Other folks (corporate networks) are in the same > boat. Why Freebsd.org thinks it can derive some non-UCE assurance from this > hackable piece of user-provided information I really don't understand. > > If anyone knows what the trick is for getting around this, I'd much appreciated > hearing from you. > > Thanks in advance! > > Randall > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message