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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:25:42 +0100
From:      Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk>
To:        Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why, this is new (and BAD, BAD, BAD!!) ...
Message-ID:  <20010911152542.B22149@router.darlow.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010911142958.A13971@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
References:  <20010911141945.A22050@router.darlow.co.uk> <20010911142958.A13971@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>

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Hi Ceri,

Providing DNS resolution for a private IP address is treating the
symptom, not the cause.

If your host uses such a private IP address then it cannot represent
itself publically on the Internet.

In such a case, your organisation will provide a mail gateway for
your domain and internally sourced mail should rewrite addresses as
if they originated from this machine.

You should also arrange for these internal hosts to collect their
mail from the mail gateway and not expect it to be routed.

The action of hub.freebsd.org is normal in attempting to check that
the supplied IP address matches that of a host lookup - for a system
that employs relaying controls.

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc.
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