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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 10:39:23 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need to speak to...
Message-ID:  <20020530103923.A552@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205291920180.29325-100000@shell.core.com>; from raiden@shell.core.com on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:22:25PM -0500
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205291920180.29325-100000@shell.core.com>

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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

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