[ On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 17:21:13 (-0400), Wakko Warner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] sender verify vs. broken mailer configs, again.
>
> > > oh, you are so wrong here...! Reverse DNS is not a requirement of
> > > SMTP, forward DNS is, and his forward DNS is fine.
> >
> > I never said Reverse DNS was a direct requirement of SMTP.
> >
> > However correct Reverse DNS is a requirement of the DNS.
>
> But your SMTP server isn't doing that.
Actually it is. I wrote the code and I know exactly what it is doing.
> 216.98.75.249 PTR is dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com
> dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com A is 216.98.75.249
That's only part of the picture since of course your mailer doen't use
that hostname.
> I have a hostname of animx.eu.org> problem?. A is also 216.98.75.249. What's the
> problem?
I thought it was obvious by now:
$ host -A animx.eu.org
*** animx.eu.org address 216.98.75.249 maps to hostname dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com
*** Hostname animx.eu.org does not belong to address 216.98.75.249
*** Not all addresses for hostname animx.eu.org have a matching hostname.
> On the internet, yes. I can see SMTP not using DNS on a local LAN that is,
> if it doesn't see the internet.
We're talking only about the public Internet here. What you do on your
own LAN is your own business.
> I did not do this. When you sent a message to my server, it attempted to do
> a callout. It first said "EHLO animx.eu.org" which your server blocked and
> requires HELO before MAIL FROM. This is NOT my misconfiguration.
It is indeed your configuration error, since it is your reverse DNS
which is broken.
--
Greg A. Woods
+1 416 218-0098; <g.a.woods@???>; <woods@???>
Planix, Inc. <woods@???>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <woods@???>
