Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else From the manual page at http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html: -C: (Default.) Handle RBL lookups

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-06 Thread John R. Levine
2) Did you actually pay MAPS for use of their mail-abuse.org servers? They started charging on August 1st so you are not going to have much luck using them to block spam if you aren't paying them. Have you looked at the price list? The price for individual users is $0. If you want to keep

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-04 Thread Chris Hardie
I list some alternatives to MAPS's RBLs, along with some other spam-prevention techniques, here: http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html#resources Chris On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: On

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-03 Thread Chin Fang
You will need to pay MAPS to use one of its three RBLs, or the combined RBL+. Please see http://www.mail-abuse.org/subscription.html and http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html even you are with an educational institution. Dr. Dan Bernstein himself has given up on MAPS's RBLs:

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-03 Thread Adrian Ho
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:58:08PM -0400, Derek Callaway wrote: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 7791 -g 2108 -v 0 smtp fixcrio /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r dialups.mail-abuse.org /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay

rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-03 Thread Derek Callaway
Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else had this problem? I'd like to blindy accept e-mail if the RBL nameservers cannot be contacted. Here's how I'm starting the SMTP server:

RE: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-02 Thread Hubbard, David
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else had this problem

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-02 Thread Derek Callaway
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Chin Fang wrote: Right, I guess I should have said that I already read those pages before I posted this message. I'm looking for a _free_ workaround to this problem. TIA You will need to pay MAPS to use one of its three RBLs, or the combined RBL+. Please see

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-02 Thread Mads Eilertsen
Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. http://www.mail-abuse.org/subscription.html Mads

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: Right, I guess I should have said that I already read those pages before I posted this message. I'm looking for a _free_ workaround to this problem. TIA There is no workaround. The resolver is going to wait for the connection to time out, thus

qmail-remote hanging on DNS query?

2001-08-01 Thread FarPoint Technologies
I've hit an odd problem with qmail-remote. With one of our ISP's DNS servers set as primary, qmail-remote will hang indefinitely on some addresses. The DNS server in question responds fine to dig queries. Example: First DNS server in resolv.conf is 205.152.0.20 Run the following command

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-27 Thread Jeff_D_Sweeten
You avoid a second machine for internal/external DNS bu using BIND 9.1.x which supports multiply view. Jeff Sweeten Sr. Internet Engineer Aon 200 E Randolph Chicago, Il 60601 Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/26/2001 02:21:43 PM To: Gary MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-27 Thread Gary S MacKay
You avoid a second machine for internal/external DNS bu using BIND 9.1.x which supports multiply view. Jeff Sweeten Sr. Internet Engineer Aon 200 E Randolph Chicago, Il 60601 Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/26/2001 02:21:43 PM To: Gary MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Gary MacKay
I moved qmail off of a 'do it all' box to it's own box. It's running great. My problem is that the old machine is still the DNS for my domain. When it sends status messages to me, it, I'm guessing, checks DNS and gets the public IP of the new box, can't connect to it from behind the firewall

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
In a message dated Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:53:57AM -0400, Gary MacKay wrote: I moved qmail off of a 'do it all' box to it's own box. It's running great. My problem is that the old machine is still the DNS for my domain. When it sends status messages to me, it, I'm guessing, checks DNS

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Gary MacKay
bind-9.1.0-10 Ricardo SIGNES wrote: In a message dated Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:53:57AM -0400, Gary MacKay wrote: I moved qmail off of a 'do it all' box to it's own box. It's running great. My problem is that the old machine is still the DNS for my domain. When it sends status messages

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
You need to run a separate DNS server for internal queries, that's how I have my DNS set up. We use a separate DNS server for the internal addresses and we don't have any problems. qmail ignores /etc/hosts, it needs a DNS server. At 12:22 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: bind-9.1.0-10 Ricardo

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
In a message dated Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Gary MacKay wrote: bind-9.1.0-10 I that case, I have no advice. I only grok djbdns. :-( -- rjbs PGP signature

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Mahlon Smith
man 8 qmail-remote Add your domain and 192 address to smtproutes and hup qmail. % cat /var/qmail/control/smtproutes your.domain.com:192.168.x.x .your.domain.com:192.168.x.x -- Mahlon Smith InternetCDS http://www.internetcds.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2001, Gary MacKay wrote: DNS and gets

Re: dns for qmail only??

2001-07-26 Thread Gary MacKay
Bingo Thanks that was a whole lot easier than setting up two dns server, which is what I was in the process of doing when I got your reply. Thanks again, Gary Mahlon Smith wrote: man 8 qmail-remote Add your domain and 192 address to smtproutes and hup qmail. % cat /var/qmail

Re: DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily

2001-07-24 Thread Vu Xuan Ngoc
Thank you for everybody. I have succeeded. I have deleted all and install again, now it don't infor the error

DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily

2001-07-22 Thread Vu Xuan Ngoc
I am new with qmail. I have a proplem with DNS bug. I have used DNS patch at http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch , but qmail still infor CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily when I send mail to hotmail.com's email address. Please help me. Thank you very much

Re: DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily

2001-07-22 Thread Greg White
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 06:57:58PM +0700, Vu Xuan Ngoc wrote: I am new with qmail. I have a proplem with DNS bug. I have used DNS patch at http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch , but qmail still infor CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily when I send mail to hotmail.com's email address

Re: DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily

2001-07-22 Thread Vu Xuan Ngoc
Greg White wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 06:57:58PM +0700, Vu Xuan Ngoc wrote: > I am new with qmail. > > I have a proplem with DNS bug. I have used DNS patch at > http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch , but qmail still infor > "CNAME_lookup_failed_temporari

Re: DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily

2001-07-22 Thread Kenny Austin
For whatever it is worth: I started having the same problem with hotmail on Friday (could have started before then, but I know it was happening Friday), I am running the latest qmail-ldap (which has the dns patch). I have sent email to hotmail from the same box in the past. I sent some email

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-11 Thread pop corn
thought my ISP would be sensitive to RIPE. Thanks for all of the feedback. From: Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reverse DNS lookups Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:44:36 +0200 I had problems to get my ISP to setup reverse DNS on my IP:s but then I turned to RIPE

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-10 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
pop corn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) If they don't add reverse PTR records for my virtual domains, I've been debating telling the Internic to change my DNS servers for the virtual domains to the base address of my own dedicated server. It's not as if my virtual domains are subdomains of my

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-10 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:07:59AM -, pop corn wrote: Their staff initially said 1) reverse PTR records were never necessary; Hell. Did you really say they call themselves an ISP? Uh-oh. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg,

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-10 Thread pop corn
Wrong mailing list, my apologies, I meant to send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: pop corn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reverse DNS lookups Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:07:59 - I'm dealing with a new ISP that has been pretty much ok until this problem. I realized

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-10 Thread Andreas Grip
I had problems to get my ISP to setup reverse DNS on my IP:s but then I turned to RIPE and they sended an e-mail to my ISP. The day after that the reverse was working :-) So maybe you should try go through RIPE... Andreas

Re: Reverse DNS lookups

2001-07-10 Thread pop corn
This was the best advice! I emailed RIPE and cc'd my ISP, then called my ISP to make sure they saw my email to RIPE. My ISP just emailed me to say that my PTR records would be put on their DNS servers tonight at midnight. I don't know if RIPE emailed them, but I think my ISP didn't want

MX record in DNS and Qmail

2001-07-01 Thread alexus
Hello i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup? Thanks in advance

Re: MX record in DNS and Qmail

2001-07-01 Thread Henning Brauer
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:37:12PM -0400, alexus wrote: Hello i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup? Put the domain(s) in question into /var/qmail/rcpthosts and nowhere else as you could have read in the archives

Re: MX record in DNS and Qmail

2001-07-01 Thread alexus
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: Re: MX record in DNS and Qmail On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:37:12PM -0400, alexus wrote: Hello i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup? Put

DNS related

2001-06-28 Thread raymond
Hi: I'm new 2 qmail. i've install it, run it, and love it. as a code builder and synth programer i've learn that the modular approach it's always the way 2 go. I have some teknical questions that are clearly DNS related is it o.k if i post those questions here? or does somebody knows about

Re: DNS related

2001-06-28 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
that are clearly DNS related is it o.k if i post those questions here? or does somebody knows about a good DNS mailing list? I think you should post those to the cr.yp.to DNS list, which is found at this server. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otherwise, I'll be happy to help if you email me

qmail without dns

2001-05-29 Thread ridhwan
hi there, had followed Life With Qmail and setup qmail without dns. Was working fine since last month. But now when users in our lan use my qmail server with my ip addr in their mua's it delays for quite a long time and sometimes hangs or goes to the out box. and when I use it from

Re: qmail without dns

2001-05-29 Thread Charles Cazabon
ridhwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But now when users in our lan use my qmail server with my ip addr in their mua's it delays for quite a long time and sometimes hangs or goes to the out box. and when I use it from the server itself it takes atleast 30 seconds to queue the mail. FAQ, FAQ,

Re: qmail without dns

2001-05-29 Thread Santosh Pasi
without dns Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:11:34 +0530 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi there, had followed Life With Qmail and setup qmail without dns. Was working fine since last month. But now when users in our lan use my qmail server withmy ip addr in their mua's it delays for quite

tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread David Killingsworth
I have been running qmail for about 8 months, It works great. So far I have not been able to resolve on problem. When an smtp connection comes in we only want to connect with servers who have forward and reverse DNS that match. I managed to install a macro into sendmail (mail server we replaced

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:30:44AM -, David Killingsworth wrote: I have been running qmail for about 8 months, It works great. So far I have not been able to resolve on problem. When an smtp connection comes in we only want to connect with servers who have forward and reverse DNS

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread David Killingsworth
been running qmail for about 8 months, It works great. So far I have not been able to resolve on problem. When an smtp connection comes in we only want to connect with servers who have forward and reverse DNS that match. I allready anwered your question in alt.comp.mail.qmail some days ago

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Delany
, May 14, 2001 at 06:30:44AM -, David Killingsworth wrote: I have been running qmail for about 8 months, It works great. So far I have not been able to resolve on problem. When an smtp connection comes in we only want to connect with servers who have forward and reverse DNS that match

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:10:21AM -, David Killingsworth wrote: Shouldn't tcpserver drop the connection when $TCPREMOTEIP is DNS'd to a hostname and $TCPREMOTEHOST is DNS'd to an IP. if $TCPREMOTEIP can't be resolved or if $TCPREMOTEHOST can't be resolved, shouldn't this cause a

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Jim Steele
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:35:32PM +, Mark Delany wrote: =.:allow :deny Close. To achieve this, the tcp.smtp file should actually contain: =:allow :deny I just experimented with both forms. With the dot, nothing matched, including hosts with good forward/reverse resolvability.

DNS and local delivery

2001-04-19 Thread Aleixo Fernandes
Hi ALL, I'm tring deliver messages localy thru qmail (smtp) and I have no DNS services configured at this time. It's not working and I read somewhere that qmail need DNS. My question is, even if for local domains ? Can you please send me indications with more detail about how create

DNS for a simple LAN?

2001-04-04 Thread Marco Calistri
Hello,I wonder if in my case could I get enhancements with qmail, installing a DNS (also just a cached DNS) into my linux server. Please consider that: I'have not a registered FQDN,my IP on the INTERNET is dynamic, I have only few machines into my LAN with their private hostnames and relative

FW: DNS question

2001-03-28 Thread David T. Ashley
-Original Message- From: David T. Ashley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNS question I read the HOWTO for q-mail, but there is one thing I don't understand. It states that I need a DNS and that my machines have

Re: FW: DNS question

2001-03-28 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK. You are using NAT - if you only want to send email from your internal network to the world and get your mails by "polling" it somehow you get no problem (except

patch file error for oversize dns

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Lo \(Home Net\)
Hi, I got the following error when I use the oversize dns patch file. My command is : patch -p0 /usr/local/src/patchfile. the error are as follow: patching file 'qmail-1.03/dns.c' Hunk #1 failed at 21. Hunk #2 failed at 47. Hunk #3 failed at 83. Please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED

if this is duplicated ( Sorry !!) oversize dns patch failed.

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I got the following error when I use the oversize dns patch file. My command is : patch -p0 /usr/local/src/patchfile. the error are as follow: patching file 'qmail-1.03/dns.c' Hunk #1 failed at 21. Hunk #2 failed at 47. Hunk #3 failed at 83. Please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: patch file error for oversize dns

2001-03-23 Thread Kirti S. Bajwa
I got it too. I still do not know why.. Hope someone responds. Kirt -Original Message- From: Mark Lo (Home Net) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: patch file error for oversize dns Hi, I got the following error when I use

canonical name in DNS

2001-03-13 Thread Essy Ren
When I follow the config command to configure the qmail, it's say something like this : ./configYour hostname is sanfransisco.hard errorSorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.You will have to set up control/me yourself. And here's is my DNS setting : $TTL

RE: canonical name in DNS

2001-03-13 Thread Próspero, Esteban
why don't you try adding sanfransisco to your DNS file? (i.e. sanfransisco IN A192.168.1.1) Esteban Javier Prspero -Original Message- From: Essy Ren [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:13 AM To: qmail Subject: canonical name in DNS When I follow

Re: canonical name in DNS

2001-03-13 Thread Kirill Miazine
couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS. You will have to set up control/me yourself. And here's is my DNS setting : $TTL 86400 erakarsa.local. IN SOA sanfransisco.erakarsa.local. essy.erakarsa.local. ( 1 ; Serial 10800 ; Refresh after 3

DNS problem may be ...

2001-03-13 Thread Essy Ren
There's a failure notice send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] like this : Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sanfransisco.erakarsa.local.I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.[EMAIL

Re: DNS problem may be ...

2001-03-13 Thread Sean Chittenden
Do you have an mx record setup for the erakarsa.local domain? You can find out by issuing either of the following (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip of your dns server): djbdns way: dnsq mx erakarsa.local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dig way (bind tool): dig erakarsa.local mx

Strange DNS problem

2001-03-09 Thread Karl Monaghan
Hi, I've been setting up a mail server and I've run into a bit of a strange problem. The mail server is for "eeng.may.ie" and it receives mails fine except those from "may.ie". If I try and send mails from my machine through Outlook using smtp, it says it cannot find the domain, yet when I log

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-08 Thread Jenny Holmberg
Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Very political question. As long as you don't reject envelope senders

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jenny Holmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Very political question. As long as you don't reject envelope senders of and #@[], you won't be violating any RFCs

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
MUST NOT refuse to accept a message, even if the sender's HELO command fails verification. Interesting; I have never agreed with refusing email based on the DNS of the HELO or envelope sender, but didn't realize that (at least for HELO) it was actually verboten. In real life

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-07 Thread James R Grinter
Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup f=FCr the MAIL FROM: address.=20 If you have reliable DNS services - I've been on the other end of that, a site permanently rejecting each mail (a 5xx code) because they were having problems resolving the sending

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-07 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, At 09:49 7.3.2001 +, James R Grinter wrote: Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup f=FCr the MAIL FROM: address.=20 If you have reliable DNS services - I've been on the other end of that, a site permanently rejecting each mail (a 5xx code

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-07 Thread John Conover
y messages would have been refused by such a policy, vs. how many should have been refused. Thanks to all for the opinions, John Erwin Hoffmann writes: Hi, At 09:49 7.3.2001 +, James R Grinter wrote: Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it makes sense to do DN

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I dont know, whether the HELO/EHLO from the MTA-Client means anything and whether it can be used for a reverse DNS lookup. However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup fr the MAIL FROM: address. This is alrady feasable by some qmail patches

dns?

2001-03-07 Thread richard morris
is not connected to our isp it's really, really fast. i have included the -H -R options in tcpserver. i have found that if i remove any entries from dns (the dns entries in there were the addesses of our isp's dns servers) this problem no longer persists, but when issuing the etrn command we cannot specify

reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread John Conover
As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Good idea? Fascist idea? Opinions pls. John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 http

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Very political question. As long as you don't reject envelope senders of and #@[], you won't be violating any RFCs. However, you

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:07:46AM -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? I don't think this buys you much in the way of spam protection and can block legitimate

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Good idea? Fascist idea? Opinions pls. Do you relay for users running POP clients who send their outbound through you via

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Russell Nelson
John Conover writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? No. Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host whose reverse DNS hostname lacks an MX record. Neither is it reasonable to reject

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Chin Fang
John Conover writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? No. Indeed. Nevertheless, I think some elaboration will make the following answers easier to understand to less experienced mail managers

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Cavender
At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, I dont know, whether the HELO/EHLO from the MTA-Client means anything and whether it can be used for a reverse DNS lookup. However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup fr the MAIL FROM: address. This is alrady feasable by some qmail patches, including my SPAMCONTROL. Have a look at: http

Re: DNS Patch Unavailable

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Schwartz
Yesbut, then the buffer takes 64K *every* time. It's not nearly that bad in practice. Thanks to the magic of demand paging, most of that space (uninitialized .bss, recall) is never touched, never paged in or out. Making the response array that size will probably cause one extra page to be

how can I do with DNS ?

2001-02-24 Thread jerry
Hi, All, I have a mail server frame named mail.xyz.com, and I want to set up a mail system with such address [EMAIL PROTECTED], butIcanonly get [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is all right to send and receive email with it. how can I set up with @xyz.com ??? I patched DNS with qmail-103

Re: DNS Patch Unavailable

2001-02-24 Thread Russell Nelson
Jeremy Suo-Anttila writes: all you need to do to fix the dns problem is change a setting in your dns.c source for qmail change the word "PACKETZ" to "65536" this is according to running Qmail by sams publishing. Yesbut, then the buffer takes 64K *every* time. Just

DNS Patch Unavailable

2001-02-23 Thread John Evans
For several days, I have attempted to download the patch that is at http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch but the server www.ckdhr.com has not been responding at all. Is this patch available from any other locations or mirror sites? -- John Evans

Re: DNS Patch Unavailable

2001-02-23 Thread Adam McKenna
or mirror sites? I have a copy of it at http://flounder.net/qmail/qmail-dns-patch --Adam -- Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA| connected to a

Re: DNS Patch Unavailable

2001-02-23 Thread Jeremy Suo-Anttila
all you need to do to fix the dns problem is change a setting in your dns.c source for qmail change the word "PACKETZ" to "65536" this is according to running Qmail by sams publishing. i have hacked this code a few times with 0 problems on 5 of my servers thanks Jps

qmail and DNS

2001-02-16 Thread Marcus Korte
Hi all, is there an remarkable performance improvement, if the mailserver has a local DNS cache (instead of contacting a external nameserver)? Best regards, Marcus -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: qmail and DNS

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Sill
Marcus Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there an remarkable performance improvement, if the mailserver has a local DNS cache (instead of contacting a external nameserver)? Potentially. If your current nameserver is not very fast and you switch to a local dnscache that's properly configured

dns and databytes patch for ofmipd

2001-02-01 Thread Will Harris
Just in case anyone is interested... I have made a patch to support two features I sorely missed in ofmipd - DNS envelope sender checking, and databytes size limiting. I have adapted Nagy Balazs' DNS mfcheck patch to work with ofmipd, and added qmail's databytes checking mechanism. If anyone

Deny for DNS Mismatch

2001-01-09 Thread Jamin A. Brown
Hello, Sorry to bring this to the list, as I'm sure that instructions for this are posted *somewhere*, but I can seem to find them. We are running Qmail with tcpserver, and would like to duplicate the sendmail feature of denying connections from mail servers which do not have DNS setup

RE: dns question

2001-01-08 Thread I. Herman
there is a list archive for BIND/DNS at: http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/ ALso on there you can join the list, which is a crossover to the newsgroup: comp.protocols.dns.bind (i think that is what it's called). As for the MX record. The MX record is what tells the world to send mail

Re: dns question

2001-01-08 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:15:25AM +, Andrew Alford wrote: Is it necessary, even if you can ping on the internet your "mail.xyz.com or smtp.xyz.com", to have your mx server listed with your registrar? That depends. If your mail addresses are of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], you will need

dns question

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Alford
Is it necessary, even if you can ping on the internet your "mail.xyz.com or smtp.xyz.com", to have your mx server listed with your registrar?

Re: dns question

2001-01-07 Thread Al Sparks
ven't done a true test if you don't ping from outside your intranet. What it comes down to, does the outside see those addresses. If the outside can then it's not "necessary". On the other hand, when you register your name with ICANN, you are required to provide 2 DNS servers you can be

Help to solve DNS

2000-12-19 Thread Tim Hunter
I have a bunch of my mail stuck in the queue to vickers-systems.com I am 95% sure its an error on their end, but I don't want to contact them until I am 100% sure. Can anyone help me out to solve why I cannot send mail to them? Thanks, Tim Hunter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SysAdmin -- CIMx

Re: Help to solve DNS

2000-12-19 Thread Charles Cazabon
Tim Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch of my mail stuck in the queue to vickers-systems.com I am 95% sure its an error on their end, but I don't want to contact them until I am 100% sure. Can anyone help me out to solve why I cannot send mail to them? What Do The Logs

Re: Help to solve DNS

2000-12-19 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:07:44PM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote: I have a bunch of my mail stuck in the queue to vickers-systems.com As Charles said: look at the logs. That's what they are for. You will probably see "cannot connect" errors, as: dig mx vickers-systems.com - no MX records dig a

DNS lookup

2000-12-08 Thread Stefan Laudat
Hello Sorry to ask this but I couldn't find an answer in LWQ or FAQs... how do I determine qmail not to perform dns lookups for incoming pop3 clients? They get huge timeouts Thanks -- Stefan Laudat http://www.pepsicola.ro/~stefan --- Two sure ways to tell a sexy

Re: DNS lookup

2000-12-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Stefan Laudat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 8 December 2000 at 22:12:48 +0200 Hello Sorry to ask this but I couldn't find an answer in LWQ or FAQs... how do I determine qmail not to perform dns lookups for incoming pop3 clients? They get huge timeouts If you're running qmail-popup

Re: Oversize DNS Patch

2000-11-13 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 November 2000 at 16:31:26 -0500 Eric Wang writes: Do I still need the Oversize DNS Patch? No. why don't need anymore? Because AOL realized their mistake. Not even AOL can get away with DNS replies larger than 512 bytes

Re: Oversize DNS Patch

2000-11-13 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:58:48PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 November 2000 at 16:31:26 -0500 Eric Wang writes: Do I still need the Oversize DNS Patch? No. why don't need anymore? Because AOL realized their mistake

Re: Oversize DNS Patch

2000-11-10 Thread Eric Wang
why don't need anymore? On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:06:17 -0500 (EST) Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Lo writes: Hi, Do I still need the Oversize DNS Patch? No. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok

Re: Oversize DNS Patch

2000-11-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Eric Wang writes: Do I still need the Oversize DNS Patch? No. why don't need anymore? Because AOL realized their mistake. Not even AOL can get away with DNS replies larger than 512 bytes. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software

Oversize DNS Patch

2000-11-08 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I would like to know that Do I still need the Oversize DNS Patch from now on. Thank you so much, Mark Lo

can send but not receive??? dns mx records???

2000-11-08 Thread Terry Thomas
but when i try to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from another machine it bounces back to me??? i realize this is a dns problem but i've been trying for 2 weeks and i've run out of ideas... i tried setting resolv.conf to nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver blkft.com but when the machine rebooted because

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