> 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. Excep
> t
> >for one or two glitches, it works well.
>
> Is os2.ami.com.au a properly registered domain in your name?
Define "registered."
It's a box in my ISP's domain.
>
> 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)
How else do you supposed I get my mail??
>
> >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.
My home computer says 'helo emu.os2.ami.com.au' because that's it's
fully-qualified name.
It's once in some years someone's refused to talk to me.
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