On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: >> Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) >> gets rejected. >> _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] > > I'm getting this all the time too. It seems that after a while my mails > just get through anyway. In fact, just now they've been getting through > first time. I'm sure my DNS is all messed up but it seems odd it gets > through after a few retries -- is that part of the filter? If it's > persistent, let it in?
No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail is delivered. > Does anybody know when this was implemented? It's been around for some years. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
