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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:00:30 -0800
From:      Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd.org dns
Message-ID:  <20020330110030.A13938@zardoc.esmtp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020330105415.A60561@greg.cex.ca>; from gregw-freebsd-stable@greg.cex.ca on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:54:16AM -0800
References:  <200203300806240930.26A8750A@10.25.0.4> <20020330105415.A60561@greg.cex.ca>

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Greg White wrote:
> On Sat Mar 03/30/02, 2002 at 08:06:24AM -1000, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote:
> > What's up with the broken dns for freebsd.org?
> > 
> > Mar 30 07:56:08 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<art@pilikia.net>, relay=[216.136.204.119], reject=450 4.7.1 <art@pilikia.net>... Relaying temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for 216.136.204.119
> > Mar 30 07:56:09 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: from=<owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, size=3226, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=[216.136.204.119]
> > 
> > I've got a zillion entries like the above in my maillog starting from last nite...
> 
> You actually defer mail delivery based on the availability of PTR
> records? This is, IMHO, a _spectacularly_ bad idea, and one of the

No.

> reasons that this is so is stuff like this. Perhaps sendmail is doing
> this 'for' you by default (I stopped running sendmail years ago). I

No.

> humbly suggest that you find a way to turn this off. 

The OP has misconfigured his machine. It assumes that this is a
relaying attempt. Hence the error message (with an explanation).

The OP should read the sendmail FAQ.

Assuming pilikia.net is a local domain (which the ns1.pilikia.net
implies) it should be added to class {w}. Details can be found
in cf/README:

If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
class {w}.  This is a list of names by which your host is known, and
anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
treated as local mail.  You can do this in two ways:  either create the
file /etc/mail/local-host-names containing a list of your aliases (one per
line), and use ``FEATURE(`use_cw_file')'' in the .mc file, or add
``LOCAL_DOMAIN(`alias.host.name')''.  Be sure you use the fully-qualified
name of the host, rather than a short name.


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