Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:48:00
Message-Id: 2375281C-1C5C-4683-A732-0B7234BFEAD0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem? by Stroller
1 Ooops... please ignore. I just noticed you said "from my hosted
2 server".
3
4 You can still try complaining to them. Good luck!!
5
6 Stroller.
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11 On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:51, Stroller wrote:
12
13 > Relay through your ISP.
14 >
15 > Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/
16 > transport` and restart Postfix)
17 >
18 > If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their
19 > policy sucks.
20 >
21 > Stroller.
22 >
23 >
24 > On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Grant wrote:
25 >
26 >> When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my
27 >> hosted
28 >> server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page:
29 >>
30 >> http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php
31 >>
32 >> which says:
33 >>
34 >> "The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband
35 >> systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts
36 >> with "generic" reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-
37 >> D.isp.com
38 >> for D.C.B.A)."
39 >>
40 >> I do get this:
41 >>
42 >> $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com
43 >> PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data.
44 >> 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1
45 >> ttl=49 time=1267 ms
46 >>
47 >> Does anyone know how to fix this?
48 >>
49 >> - Grant
50 >>
51 >