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Date:      Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:17:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, NOC-IPAD <sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org>
Subject:   RE: named/sendmail Guru Question...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980709141747.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980709120523.malte@webmore.com>

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And delete this bullshit from your zone-file:

>> We found a way to stop this problem, but it is not RFC1700
>> compliant: by adding a dns record,
>> 
>>       mfn.org.    IN CNAME greeves.mfn.org      

Malte.

On 09-Jul-98 Malte Lance wrote:
> Set this in your zone-file for mfn.org:
> 
> ; for mailers ignoring MX-records
>                 in a    204.238.179.3
> 
> just after the MX-specification.
> 
> Malte
> 
> On 09-Jul-98 NOC-IPAD wrote:
>> The original message was received at Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
>> from root@localhost
>> 
>>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>> sysadmin@mfn.org
>> A question for the named/sendmail gurus present:
>> 
>> Beginning with our coversion from NT name services to bind (as
>> distributed with 2.2.5R), we have had a problem with some (very 
>> few actually) domains attempting to mail us - AOL is the worst
>> of the problems.  All outgoing mail is ok, as is local mail, and 
>> incoming from almost everywhere, but...
>> 
>> We found a way to stop this problem, but it is not RFC1700
>> compliant: by adding a dns record,
>> 
>>       mfn.org.    IN CNAME greeves.mfn.org      
>>  
>> (greeves is our mail hub) the problem disappears, but so does the
>> ability to maintain secondary bind servers (we already filed GNATS
>> on it).
>> 
>>       Does anybody know what to do about this?  And, are we
>> the only ones who have this problem?  
>> 
>> Attached is a perfectly typical header from tonights batch of notices...
>> 
>> J.A. Terranson
>> sysadmin@mfn.org
>>  
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>> ------------------------------
>>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>> 550 sysadmin@mfn.org... Host unknown (Name server: mfn.org: no data known)
>> 
>>    ----- Original message follows -----
>> 
>> Received: from CrystalRun@aol.com
>>       by imo16.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id FJYNa27696
>>       for <sysadmin@mfn.org>; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: <CrystalRun@aol.com>
>> 
>> 
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> 
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> Date: 09-Jul-98
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Date: 09-Jul-98
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