On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>os2.ami.com.au is my computer; it's permanently attached to the Internet. it
>also has an alias, www2.ami.com.au.
>
>I also use the name os2.ami.com.au for the domain name of my home LAN. Except
>for one or two glitches, it works well.
Is os2.ami.com.au a properly registered domain in your name?
2 root@asdf:~# nslookup os2.ami.com.au
Server: gw.capslock.lan
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: os2.ami.com.au
Address: 203.55.31.51
If the above isn't you, then this could be the problem. ;o)
>One of the glitches is that mail relaying has never worked for me. I
>configured my sendmail at home to relay mail to the world via os2.ami.com.au.
>
>I have also configured the same computer to receive mail for os2.ami.com.au;
>it's the server for my home LAN after all.
Right.
>relaying has never worked, but I'd never bothered as my mail's been getting
>delivered. However, I recently encountered one of the few domains where the
>postmaster is under the delusion that refusing mail from a machine which
>announces itself with an unresolvable hostname reduces spam.
Your hostname is resolveable if it is the above nslookup I did.
Unless your machine announces itself as something else via
SMTP. In that case it is likely a sendmail misconfig.
>I updated my sendmail to the same version as I have on another box where
>relaying actually does work and negotiated the pitfalls in configuring the new
>version the way I want it (and resending some bounced mail). However, it still
>would not relay via the box os2.ami.com.au. And, when I told it to relay via
>www2.ami.com.au, it complained about mail loop.s
>
>I checked that I could relay via my IAP's box. However, mail bounced when it
>was unresolvable.
Hmm. That might be easier to troubleshoot with your mail
configs.
>Eventually, I hit on the idea of adding a new entry to my zone file; not
>relay.os2.ami.com.au is a name in my home LAN but with the IP address of the
>486 box on the net.
>
>Relaying through it works for me (but not for you!!) now; I've just checked
>its log.
>
>Hopefully, I won't get mail bouncing because my mail relay is unresolvable
>either.
Well, if it don't work, post your configs, but really this isn't
redhat-devel related, so it'd be better on zoot or guinness.
Good luck,
TTYL
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#[Mike A. Harris bash tip #2 - custom colorized bash prompts]
# For a color prompt, put the following at the bottom of your ~/.bash_profile
TTYNAME=$(tty | sed -e 's/^\/dev\///' -e 's/^tty//');DRED=31;DGREEN=32
BROWN=33;DBLUE=34;DMAGENTA=35;DCYAN=36;GREY=37;DGREY=30\;1;RED=31\;1
GREEN=32\;1;YELLOW=33\;1;BLUE=34\;1;MAGENTA=35\;1;CYAN=36\;1;WHITE=37\;1
CLRUSER=$CYAN ; CLRHOST=$YELLOW # Set the user and host colors here
PS1="$TTYNAME \[\033[${CLRUSER}m\]\u\[\033[0;m\]"
export PS1="${PS1}@\[\033[${CLRHOST}m\]\h\\[\033[0;m\]:\w\$ "
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