Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:34:28 -0500 (EST) From: Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212282231070.18241-100000@pooh.ASARian.org> In-Reply-To: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote: > No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is > a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about > 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail > is delivered. I'm confused. I have an IP that has a lot of forward names, but the PTR points at the ISPs name. I don't have any trouble with sendmail sending and receiving internet email. even tho the PTR returns one of many name for the IP? fuz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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