Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines It was the bit

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:33:09PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what From:

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that user's current ISP and one which meets your standard?

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS name attached to an IP at a time. You can't do it because it doesn't exist. Several Debian developers have debian.net subdomains which do not reverse because

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what From:

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and that something needs

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken. Period. Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS name

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken. Period. Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS name

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:12AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [snip, snip, snippety-snip] Ladies and Gentlemen, I just joined the debian-devel list

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and that something needs

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:20:46PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: So? Anyone who asked for that would be unreasonable. Besides, nobody's mail server is telneting to your port 25 to see what your SMTP greeting says -- that would be insane. It's a simple double-lookup. The PTR record is

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:20:02PM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote: I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited [...] I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch of bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic flaming. Welcome to Debian. -- G.

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Micheal == Michael S Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micheal I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited about being Micheal able to possibly contribute code and insights to the installation Micheal system to make it more palatable to those who would like to install Micheal

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 07, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some very big ISP here have mailservers with no reverse mapping... Well, they are badly broken, you know? I do, but refusing mail is quite an extreme act. The IANA mandate is that /all/ machines on public IP address have I really don't think so.

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
8.09.2000 pisze Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch of bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic flaming. Welcome to Debian. ``What is Debian. How do you define Debian? If you're talking about what you

Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Timshel Knoll
Hi, Oliver Schulze is an upstream maintainer of one of my prospective packages, and he's had problems sending mail to my @debian.org address. I believe that this is something to do with master's IPv6 configuration - the SMTP error message from master is: 550 mail from :::216.250.196.10

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Timshel Knoll wrote: Oliver Schulze is an upstream maintainer of one of my prospective packages, and he's had problems sending mail to my @debian.org address. I believe that this is something to do with master's IPv6 configuration - the SMTP error message from master is:

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:08:17PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: 550 mail from :::216.250.196.10 rejected: administrative prohibition (failed to find host name from IP address) Is there any way to get this fixed? No. The MTA at the destination host is trying to tell you that dialup

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:58:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:08:17PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: 550 mail from :::216.250.196.10 rejected: administrative prohibition (failed to find host name from IP address) Is there any way to get this fixed?

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:58:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:08:17PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: 550 mail from :::216.250.196.10 rejected: administrative prohibition (failed to find host name from IP address) Is there any way to get this fixed?

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread cfm
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:33:21PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:58:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:08:17PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: 550 mail from :::216.250.196.10 rejected: administrative prohibition (failed to find host

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:33:21PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines with

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that user's current ISP and one which meets your standard? Until then,

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:57:05PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines with

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:55:07AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:57:05PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:33:21PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet under the reasoning that

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:55:07AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:09:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: nobody's telling anyone to get any particular ISP or that they have to pay for a premium quality service. True. it's simple - if you want a service that's worth having, you pay whatever it costs. if you don't want that, then pay

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:55:07AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce their mail until then. Are you willing

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:48:17AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:09:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: it's simple - if you want a service that's worth having, you pay whatever it costs. if you don't want that, then pay for a cheap/crappy service and put up with it

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: i think you misread what i said. i said that missing or incorrect reverse DNS is *NOT* a good reason for bouncing mail. I guess I did. Thanks, -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 07, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just your standard lack of reverse DNS.. Part of the anti-spam bit. The sender needs to get working reverse DNS I suppose.. Looks like a stupid check, to me. Some very big ISP here have mailservers with no reverse mapping... -- ciao,

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:33:21PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 07, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just your standard lack of reverse DNS.. Part of the anti-spam bit. The sender needs to get working reverse DNS I suppose.. Looks like a stupid check, to me. It is.

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:58:33AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: In any case, reverse DNS lookup is reasonable, no matter what you think of DUL. I have to agree with this. The previous time, the discussion was using DUL to block email. This is about reverse DNS lookups failing, which is a

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:33:21PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: It says, in plain English, failed to find host name from IP address. It says in plain English, administrative prohibition (failed to fine host name from IP address) Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:58:33AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: In any case, reverse DNS lookup is reasonable, no matter what you think of DUL. I have to agree with this. The previous time, the discussion was using DUL to block email. This is

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:19:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: People like Mr. Jones don't like to consider impacts. They like easy rules and easy policies. They don't like to do analysis. And they especially don't like to be inconvenienced by considerations of the impact of their