From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 7:12:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA72537B401; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from panther.wmin.ac.uk (panther.wmin.ac.uk [161.74.55.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0682843F5F; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.knell@westminster.ac.uk) Received: from cougar.wmin.ac.uk ([161.74.160.93] ident=exim) by panther.wmin.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 18bj1Y-00029Z-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:12:12 +0000 Received: from lemming.irs.wmin.ac.uk ([161.74.75.42] helo=wmin.ac.uk) by cougar.wmin.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 18bj1X-0005JO-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:12:11 +0000 Message-ID: <3E30064A.9000402@wmin.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:12:10 +0000 From: Mike Knell Organization: University of Westminster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hunter Peress Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another of my mailservers is being blocked by freebsd.org References: <20030123150426.77598.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hunter Peress wrote: > Hi, I've been having to use this yahoo account because my normal email server > *seems* to be blocked by freebsd.org: > > This has been going on for days now: > > >>The original message was received at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:52:39 -0500 (EST) >>from cs2417534-45.austin.rr.com [24.175.34.45] >> >> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >> >> (reason: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found) >> >> (reason: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found) As the bounce message suggests -- I'm sure someone will provide chapter and verse on this shortly, but could the problem be that txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. doesn't actually exist in the DNS? A lot of machines will (quite rightly) reject mail from apparently bogus domains.. eland:knellm~$ dig @ns1.texas.rr.com. txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. ANY ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @ns1.texas.rr.com. txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. ANY ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 60402 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. IN ANY ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: texas.rr.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.texas.rr.com. rradm.texas.rr.com. 2003012001 3600 600 86400 3600 ;; Query time: 133 msec ;; SERVER: 24.93.35.32#53(ns1.texas.rr.com.) ;; WHEN: Thu Jan 23 15:11:11 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85 Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message