Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:47:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is this getting out? Message-ID: <20091219004708.GB4836@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20091217145843.000023ef@unknown> References: <20091212233205.GA14918@thought.org> <20091217155220.f7a8a798.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091217145843.000023ef@unknown>
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:58:43PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:20 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > Gary, > > > > seems that my MX has problems with thought.org, that's why > > I'm repeating my reply on the list, I hope you can receive > > it this way. > > > > The MX said: > > > > <kline@thought.org>: Host or domain name not found. > > Name service error for > > name=ethic.thought.org type=A: Host not found > > It looks like the server is EHLO'ing as ethic.thought.org but is > actually plato.thought.org. this stuff is at the lim of my knowledge. plato.thought.org is my firewall. pfSense. i don't have a nuculear(!) secrets or whatever, but damned if i want these script-kiddies reading my poetry..... or to have somebody hijack anything and spew out sp*m----which i severely despise. having my domain: server and firewall set up correctly will at least (help) keep the bad guys, the crackers of the world, from using my bandwidth or crack in. thus: now that i'm finished with my master's in ethics, i have time to get up to speed on this stuff. pfSense, DNS & BIND, anf whatever else i let slip since 06/2002. gary PS: sorry if i went slightly bonkers there. > > -- > Bruce Cran -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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