bounced email to a freedbsd mailing list

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 03:23:44PM -0700, Dan Strick wrote:
> I just got a couple of messages to freebsd-chat rejected.
> Can someone clue me in?  The rejection message was:
> 
>     The original message was received at Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:33:36 -0400
>     from h-67-101-99-172.snfccasy.dynamic.covad.net [67.101.99.172]
> 
>        ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>     ... while talking to mx1.freebsd.org.:
>     >>> DATA
>     <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [69.49.106.81]
>     <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [69.49.106.81]
> 
> Dig -x 69.49.106.81 reveals:
> 
>     ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>     81.106.49.69.in-addr.arpa. 21124 IN     PTR     mail871.carrierinternetsolutions.com.

The problem is that "mail871.carrierinternetsolutions.com" doesn't
resolve to anything.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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