From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 6 19:49:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21238 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 19:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (hunt@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21230 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 19:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hunt@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA15407; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 22:49:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970906224902.21528@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 22:49:02 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Greg Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A quick note to those without DNS resolvable mail hosts. Reply-To: Matthew Hunt References: <19970906112341.62007@lemis.com> <25287.873511515@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <25287.873511515@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 07:05:15PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 07:05:15PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I didn't say we were killing AOL.COM, I merely cited them as an > example of someplace people generally didn't want to be. :) On the other hand, you are taking (perfectly reasonable, IMHO) measures to become more like aol.com: Connected to mrin40.mx.aol.com. [... trimmed -mph ... ] mail from: 550 ... Sender domain not found in DNS (see RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18). It seems to me that requiring valid DNS is reasonable, since if your DNS is broken, not only won't you be able to send mail to freebsd.org, you also won't be able to send mail to aol.com and who knows where else? My personal machine for one... -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.