Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 04:09:01 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No cable modems?? Message-ID: <20001220040901.A4033@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20001220010215.R96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:02:15AM -0800 References: <20001219182739.C61697@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012200518.eBK5IsB15659@dungeon.home> <20001220003436.A345@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001219233320.O96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20001220024129.A2993@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001220003306.P96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20001220035135.A3783@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001220010215.R96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:02:15AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:51:35AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > > > > I don't really see anything unusual about this... It's pretty common > > for mail.whatever.domain to be an alias, no? I think every ISP I have > > ever used had a mail gateway called mail*.whatever.domain that resolved > > to some other host than 'mail'. > > 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. Ah, yes, I see your point... But I think, like you suggest, that is not the problem here. Nobody has ever bounced my mail before, and the reason given in the reject was simply 'no cable modems here', and suggested nothing about host names resolving, etc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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