From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 15:46:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882FA37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:46:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3757843F93 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.5]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030317234203.RBGC15778.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:42:03 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h2HNcxiG062768; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:38:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004c01c2ecde$b3de2450$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Joshua Lokken" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Reverse name lookups Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:41:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Lokken" To: Cc: Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:04 PM Subject: RE: Reverse name lookups > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Long [mailto:list@museum.rain.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:21 PM > > To: Joshua Lokken > > Subject: Re: Reverse name lookups > > > > > > > So, I'd like to go to the next option, "/or set up an > > ARPA zone for > > > reverse DNS." > > > However, I've read and it's been suggested that unless I have two > > > static IPs, I > > > cannot manage my own DNS. What do I need to do? Thanks > > for any help. > > > > Hi, Joshua. > > > > Can you send me a specific IP and hostname so that I can do > > some lookups > > to see what the status quo is? And can you also tell me > > what you'd like > > the status quo to be? > > > > Jim > > > > No problem. > > IP 12.225.249.250 <== dynamically assigned by attbi.com, but hasn't > changed in 2 years. > domain joshualokken.com > > nslookups for joshualokken.com are fine. They point to > 12.225.249.250. > nslookups for 12.225.249.250 resolve fine, but point to > 12-225-249-250.client.attbi.com, > > so, for example, if I send mail to questions from my 'main' account at > home, it gets > returned, because it doesn't recognize jolok@joloxbox.joshualokken.com > as a valid > host. > > I would like to be able to maintain a mailserver for > *@joshualokken.com, and have > www.joshualokken.com resolve correctly. Now I'm getting 'unable to > connect with > remote host' when I point to www.joshualokken.com, and like I said, > returned email > from home. > > I'll gladly post more info if it helps. Thanks, Since you're using zoneedit, add a CNAME entry for joloxbox.joshualokken.com that points to joshualokken.com. That way when you expose "internal" hostnames on the internet, they will be resolvable. I have had to do this to two of my internal boxes whose hostnames sometimes leak out in email headers. (Damn sendmail -- when I say masquerade, I mean it!) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message