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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Dana Hudes <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: dns problem with mailing list server
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:25:03 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> CC to www list.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dana Hudes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The mail relay used for the dbdpg-general mailing list, 200.46.204.17,
>> does not have consistent reverse DNS entry (it does have a reverse entry).
>>
>> Specifically, while gborg.postgresql.org has address 200.46.204.176 the
>> reverse entry 176.204.46.200.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
>> svr3.postgresql.org.
>>
>> But svr3.postgresql.org. does not have a forward entry.
>>
>> This then falls afoul of the anti-spam measures recommended in RFC2055 and
>> the procedures recommended at e.g. www.postfix.org (I use the postfix mail
>> relay).
>>
>> If someone adds a forward entry for svr3.postgresql.org resolving to
>> 200.46.204.176 all will be well.
>>
>> Until then my, and many other, mail relays will think mailing list traffic
>> is from a fraudulent host and reject the mail (albeit with a 450 status,
>> indicatitive of a temporary failure; potentially when the situation is
>> corrected the most recent mail will then be delivered).
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
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