"May be forged"?

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Sep 18 19:54:08 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:43:37AM +0000, Mark wrote:
> Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in
> 8.12.10:
> 
> AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged),
> authid=admin
> 
> That is odd; why would it suddenly say "may be forged"? That makes no sense.

This means that while there *is* a reverse entry for 192.168.1.3, the
result that came back for the IP doesn't have a forward lookup.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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