From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 21:22:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5966037B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 84C496ACC1; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:52:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:52:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Accepting mail from unqualified mail servers Message-ID: <20010718135230.I69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <2c21652c6681.2c66812c2165@mbox.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2c21652c6681.2c66812c2165@mbox.com.au>; from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:17:05PM +1000 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 18 July 2001 at 14:17:05 +1000, BSD Freak wrote: > Hi all... > > > I need to be able to accept mail from mail servers that are behind a DMZ > (and hence their hostnames cannot be resolved). It seems by default > FreeBSD does not accept mail from mail servers who hostname cannot be > resloved in the public DNS. Is there anyway to modify this behaviour > (under sendmail on FreeBSD 4.3)? I know this could open me up to spam > but I need to do this.... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated..... The safest way to do this is to add a dummy reverse zone to your DNS, so that *you* can resolve them and nobody else. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message