Hi,
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> From: Saptak Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Re: Routing error
> Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:42 PM
>
> > Which is the mail server that responded relaying denied, is it
> > cal.vsnl.net.in ( the outgoing email server configured in my system ),
> > or is it giascl01 which is the server I am connected to.
> The server cal.vsnl.net.in failed to relay the message to the host
> city4u.com. The problem could be either be in cal.vsnl.net.in or city4u.com.
> I guess it is the former.
I only wish it was that simple.... last evening last evening at Shanker's place, we
were fiddling with nslookup.... and
what we saw was pretty horrifying .. reverse address resolution entries missing... SOA
fields being present where it
should have no business at all... it was a vision from the domain admin's hell and it
is currently being further
explored by us.
> > We have two accounts, one exclusively for the ISDN interface, and the
> > other for the normal modem interface. We are unable to dial out through
> > modem and connect(rout) back to the ISDN interface.
> I guess you are using some kind of IP masquerading / NAT on the ISDN
> connection. You have to exclude the computer making the ISDN connection from
> NAT.
Why on earth??? Agreed that at home I don't have an ISDN connection....but I can
send/receive mails from any/all of my
boxen with no trouble. Besides, I have had the same problem (and even more peculiar
ones) even when I am directly
connected to the Net (ie. no IP_masq). The problem is entirely with VSNL. The relay
problem could have been justified
if they had deactivated relaying from non-local domains (as being done by many
mailservers to stop themselves from
being exploited by spammers), but that is not the case...
(I suggest we gherao Mr. A. Chandra sometime soon, and demand to be relieved of this
misery ;-)
Cheers,
--Indra.
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