[Sysadmin] Heeeeelp - think i broke qmail-smtpd on tempest

David Kaufman david at gigawatt.com
Tue Nov 8 12:51:34 CST 2005


Hi John!

> John Handelaar <john at userfrenzy.com> wrote:
>> In related news, Eric Meyer tells me that some css-d people aren't
>> getting mail because our canonical reverse DNS lookup is
>> 194.67-19-100.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.100.194] -- which is
>> getting rejected a lot by servers which assume it's a dynamic
>> address. 
>> 
>> See /var/qmail/queue/bounce for examples.
>> 
>> Can we get a change of reverse lookup through Servermatrix/Theplanet
>> ? 
> 

David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> Yes we can.  I'll request that soon as their portal comes back up
> tomorrow.  It's down for maintenance at the moment.

>
> <support-portal at theplanet.com> wrote:
> The Planet Support Ticket 972268PLNT was Updated
> (llawson-11/08/2005 07:43:53):
> Your reverse DNS entry has been added.
> 
> Thank you,
> The Planet

All done:  

$ host 67.19.100.194
194.100.19.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tempest.evolt.org.

Ask Ertic to let us know if this helps!  

$ ls -al /var/qmail/queue/bounce | wc -l
2380

-dave



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