Difficulty asking questions

[Ian Smith]

gday,

sending this to both of your addresses, and -questions.  You should get
three.  If you reply, esp from your apana address, I could check a) that
you can post to me at least :) and b) see what the headers suggest about
reverse IP resolution.

Micah said:

>I had the same problem, I could receive I just couldn't send to /any/
>freebsd.org list.  I can't track down the emails right now, but I
>believe it was either postmaster at freebsd.org or freebsd-questions-owner@
>who helped me figure out that my ISP had DNS issues.  With his help I
>emailed my ISP support line and they fixed their problem (I was
>surprised!)  So you should probably start by emailing one of the address
>I listed to see if they can help you track down your problem.

And Chris wrote:

>Normally this happens when your mail server doesnt reversly resolve to >the domain name so if mail.i13i.com doesnt reverse to mail.i13i.com
>freebsd.org's mailing lists will reject the mail. As this happened when i
>was hosting my site using my DSL wasnt until i got a ded that i relaised
>what it was.

Seems the problem is indeed (at least temporarily) APANA's reverse DNS:

gaia: {301} dig -x 203.3.126.1

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6
                                       ^^^^^^^^
;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; Total query time: 73580 msec
                     ^^^^^
which most likely explains why freebsd.org's mx is ignoring your mail.

Probably worth mailing Matt Geier as suggested, and your local Brisbane
apana tech bods; I expect they'll want to know ..

Oh, it's worse than that .. ns.apana.org.au seems currently broken:

smithi on paqi% dig @ns.apana.org.au. -x 203.3.126.1
[..]
;; res_nsend to server ns.apana.org.au.  192.188.107.12: Operation timed
out

smithi on paqi% dig @ns.apana.org.au. apana.org.au
[..]
;; res_nsend to server ns.apana.org.au.  192.188.107.12: Operation timed
out

Trying another apana.org.au listed ns:

gaia: {304} dig @warrane.connect.com.au. -x 203.3.126.1
[..]
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa.       43200   RP support.brisbane.apana.org.au.
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa.       43200   TXT     "APANA Brisbane"
1.126.3.203.in-addr.arpa.       43200   PTR     gargoyle.apana.org.au.

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200   NS      yarrina.connect.com.au.
126.3.203.in-addr.arpa. 43200   NS      ns.apana.org.au.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
yarrina.connect.com.au. 3600    A       192.189.54.17
ns.apana.org.au.        3600    A       192.188.107.12

.. but ns.apana.org.au fails to provide that PTR response right now ..
unless apana has _my_ server blacklisted of course :)

I'd be mailing that RP too (guess it's support at brisbane.apana.org.au)

Cheers, Ian