On Sat Mar 03/30/02, 2002 at 11:00:30AM -0800, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Greg White wrote: > > On Sat Mar 03/30/02, 2002 at 08:06:24AM -1000, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > > > What's up with the broken dns for freebsd.org? > > > > > > Mar 30 07:56:08 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: >ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=[216.136.204.119], reject=450 4.7.1 ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for >216.136.204.119 > > > Mar 30 07:56:09 ns1.pilikia.net sendmail[49553]: g2UHu8X49553: >from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=3226, class=0, nrcpts=0, >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=[216.136.204.119] > > > > > > I've got a zillion entries like the above in my maillog starting from last >nite... > > > > You actually defer mail delivery based on the availability of PTR > > records? This is, IMHO, a _spectacularly_ bad idea, and one of the > > The OP has misconfigured his machine. It assumes that this is a > relaying attempt. Hence the error message (with an explanation).
Apologies to all. I caught only the 'Cannot resolve PTR', I should have read more closely. :( Sigh... Breaking my rule about posting before coffee often gets me in trouble. I do stand by my in-addr.arpa diagnosis -- I checked it again, and I've had coffee now... ;) -- Greg White To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
