the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet
On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of > > Mandrake's systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be > > reproduced without your presence. It's good to see you back around. > > > > Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this > > out with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact > > that I am on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip > > address, the reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the > > virtual hosting, in this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My > > domain, gkmweb.com, points to the numeric ip address that you looked up > > (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse lookup points to > > Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. > > Sorry to jump into this thread. > My domain name (bisapi.com) is hosted as a virtual domain by the server > server653.gisol.com. > > adolfobello # host bisapi.com > bisapi.com has address 64.246.18.79 > .... > > adolfobello # host 64.246.18.79 > 79.18.246.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server653.gisol.com. > > Mandrake list does not check that the name/ip match because it if would > then my mails were rejected and they are not. As those from any other > virtual domain. > > I think that Mandrake list checks the servername/ip no matter the domain > from which the mail is sent. Something like this: > > 1.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends (smtp) to bisapi.com(64.246.18.79) > impersonated by server653.gisol.com > 2.- server653.gisol.com (64.246.18.79) tries to deliver mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is served by > smtp.mandrake.com > 3.- smtp.mandrake.com makes a reverse lookup on 64.246.18.79, gets > server653.gisol.com and receives the mail form [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If at point 3, the reverse lookup don't yield the name of the server > that is trying to send the mail, then it rejects it. > > Mu question would be: is Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com (64.72.132.17) > the server name trying to deliver the mail? > > A lookup of the server results in a "no host found" response. > adolfobello # host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com > Host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > In any case, these people have a problem with their DNS setup. A name in > the arpa zone with no CNAME or A register associated in the direct zone. > > > Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with > > changes to the DNS entries. > > - -- > > Greg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 > > 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= > > =2XSh > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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