From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 17:39:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7534037B404 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765072B6BA; Thu, 30 May 2002 02:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EBB3D6A711E; Thu, 30 May 2002 10:39:23 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:39:23 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Steven Lake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to speak to... Message-ID: <20020530103923.A552@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Steven Lake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from raiden@shell.core.com on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:22:25PM -0500 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 Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:22:25PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote: > HI. I need to speak to whoever handles the website and mail > servers for freebsd.org and its dns. We're trying to post to your mailing > list off one of our servers but it keeps getting rejected, host not found, > yet we have all the correct pointer records and A records needed. However > I did see what I think is a bad DNS entry in your zonefile via dig. > Please contact me so that we can discuss this and resolve it as soon as > possible. Thanks. I'm not handling it, but I know that the mailserver rejects mail if the IP address of your host can't be resolved. So make sure the DNS server authoritative for your netblock has a PTR record for your host! See also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message