Re: Another of my mailservers is being blocked by freebsd.org

[Mike Knell]

Hunter Peress wrote:

Hi, I've been having to use this yahoo account because my normal email server
*seems* to be blocked by freebsd.org:
This has been going on for days now:

The original message was received at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:52:39 -0500 (EST)
from cs2417534-45.austin.rr.com [24.175.34.45]

  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   (reason: 450 <txsmtp01.texas.rr.com>: Helo command rejected: Host not found)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   (reason: 450 <txsmtp01.texas.rr.com>: Helo command rejected: Host not found)

As the bounce message suggests -- I'm sure someone will provide chapter and verse on this shortly, but could the problem be that txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. doesn't actually exist in the DNS? A lot of machines will (quite rightly) reject mail from apparently bogus domains..

eland:knellm~$ dig @ns1.texas.rr.com. txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. ANY

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @ns1.texas.rr.com. txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. ANY
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 60402
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;txsmtp01.texas.rr.com. IN ANY

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
texas.rr.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.texas.rr.com. rradm.texas.rr.com. 2003012001 3600 600 86400 3600

;; Query time: 133 msec
;; SERVER: 24.93.35.32#53(ns1.texas.rr.com.)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 23 15:11:11 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85

Mike



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