At 11:37 01.08.2001 -0500, Lukas Beeler wrote:
> At 11:14 01.08.2001 -0500, Scott Zielsdorf wrote:
> >Once I set the TCPREMOTEIP variable I did see the rule which now
> leads me to
> >the discovery that my Windows workstations - which are DHCP
> clients - do not
> >have entries in my DNS.
>
> so far, so good. but tell me, what does the TCPREMOTEIP Variable have to
> with DNS ?
Ummm...nothing, at this stage, I would guess.
> >So when qmail does the reverse look up, it can't
> >resolve the IP.
>
> yes, but where's the problem ?
>
The problem is RELAYCLIENT doesn't get set and therefore the relaying rules
in tcp.smtp.cdb do not get invoked - apparently.
The headers in testing show the dialogue between any workstation on my net
with qmail smtp as "HELO (machine name) (unknown)"
So, I am *assuming* that even though I have -H (Do Not Look Up Remote Host
Name) set in the run file invoking smtp that
somesort of lookup is being done and when it can't resolve I get the
"Sorry...you're not in my rcpthosts file" message.
> >Short of going off DHCP and putting all my workstations in my
> DNS, is there
> >any way to "fix this"?
>
> fix what ? everything will work, even without ptr records...
Alas, NOTHING works with respect to selective relaying. Is it maybe a Linux
net configuration issue? And to re-iterate from an earlier post, I have
followed installation to the letter from LWQ.
Thanks,
Scott
