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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:05:03 +1300
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Subject: Re: No cable modems??
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On 20 Dec 2000, at 1:02, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Yeah, that is common, but that's not what is happening here. The name
> and address do not match. You would expect it is possible multiple
> names to map to one IP address, but here we have a machine giving a
> name which corresponds to a _different_ IP than the one from which the
> connection is coming. It looks like it is lying about being
> Mail6.sc.rr.com.
> 
> But I am not sure if that is even the problem or not.

FWIW, I had exactly the same problem with my former ISP about a 
year or two ago.  My mail was rejected from freebsd.org and the 
problem was the above situation.

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Dan Langille
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