Postfix not resolving name from IP address

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
I re-installed bind and both host and dig are now working, but attempts to join a mail list fail: Oct 11 08:31:44 salmo postfix/smtpd[30881]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[67.23.35.254]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [67.23.35.254]; from= to= proto=ESMTP helo=

RE: Postfix not resolving name from IP address

2011-10-11 Thread Driessen
> -Original Message- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- > us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:19 PM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Postfix not resolving name from IP address > >

RE: Postfix not resolving name from IP address

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Driessen wrote: Set HELO = PTR = A = marge.leafe.com and the Problems going away Where do I do this? Danke, Rich

RE: Postfix not resolving name from IP address

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: Set HELO = PTR = A = marge.leafe.com and the Problems going away Where do I do this? What I did was to modify /etc/hosts here by adding the IP address and the name @slicehost.net. I'll let them know there's a problem with their DNS server. Thanks

Re: Postfix not resolving name from IP address

2011-10-11 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/11/2011 11:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I re-installed bind and both host and dig are now working, but > attempts to > join a mail list fail: > > Oct 11 08:31:44 salmo postfix/smtpd[30881]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[67.23.35.254]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your

Re: Postfix not resolving name from IP address [RESOLVED]

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Noel Jones wrote: This messages was rejected by the reject_unknown_client_hostname restriction. Noel, That's what I assumed. That's only half of it. You also need to check: $ host 67-23-35-254.static.slicehost.net. Host 67-23-35-254.static.slicehost.net. not found: 3

Re: Postfix not resolving name from IP address [RESOLVED]

2011-10-11 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/11/2011 1:07 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I see a lot of gmail and yahoo accounts on that mail list (now > that I'm > receiving messages with the fix in /etc/hosts) so it may well be > that I'm > the only subscriber using postfix and an MTA and whatever they did > to make > the address work wi

Re: Postfix not resolving name from IP address [RESOLVED]

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Noel Jones wrote: ... many of them do enforce the equivalent of reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname. Noel, That has been in main.cf. I commented out of reject_unknown_client_hostname and reloaded postfix. Thanks very much for the insights, Rich