Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Joe
On 11/17/2010 02:30 PM, Chris G wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: I would expect that dnsmasq is documented, and the documentation should cover sufficient detail to help you avoid this illegal RRset combination. You should only bother the "gurus/maintainers"

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Chris G put forth on 11/17/2010 5:50 AM: > That's one answer of course, thanks, for the moment I have changed my > local DNS server so that it returns a LAN address for zbmc.eu as well as > mws.zbmc.eu. If that causes other issues (I don't think it will) then > I'll use the above [] syntax. Some

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:32:24PM +, Chris G wrote: > > > > It is not legal for a DNS CNAME RRset to coexist with other data for > > > the same domain name. Nor should you have multiple CNAME records for > > > the same domain.

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:32:24PM +, Chris G wrote: > > It is not legal for a DNS CNAME RRset to coexist with other data for > > the same domain name. Nor should you have multiple CNAME records for > > the same domain. > > > > If "mdw.zmbc.edu" is a host with "A" records, it must not be a CN

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:25:52PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:47:45AM +, Chris G wrote: > > > ch...@dps:/etc/postfix$ host mws.zbmc.eu > > mws.zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.4 > > mws.zbmc.eu is an alias for zbmc.eu. > > mws.zbmc.eu is an alias fo

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:47:45AM +, Chris G wrote: > ch...@dps:/etc/postfix$ host mws.zbmc.eu > mws.zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.4 > mws.zbmc.eu is an alias for zbmc.eu. > mws.zbmc.eu is an alias for zbmc.eu. > zbmc.eu mail is handled by 10 zbmc.eu. It is not legal for

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:47:45AM +, Chris G wrote: > > ... and that has resolved the DNS/IP problem at least though I'm still > getting "relaying denied". So now the relayhost (192.168.1.4) is > rejecting the E-Mail from the client (192.168.1.2) even though I have:- > > mynetworks = 12

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:34:50PM -0500, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > On 11/16/2010 2:03 PM, Chris G wrote: > >Er, it's Postfix isn't it? :-) Or have I misunderstood completely > >(quite likely!). > > > >When I 'telnet mws.zbmc.eu 25' from the client it does connect to > >mws.zbmc.eu (192

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Larry Stone wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, mouss wrote: > > >so, your client says > > relay=zbmc.eu[84.45.228.40] > >and your server says > > reject: RCPT from unknown[84.45.228.40] > > > >So your client and server have the same IP. This means that

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:17:17PM +0100, mouss wrote: > Le 16/11/2010 19:58, Chris G a écrit : > >On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:47:26PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > >>On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:39:49PM +, Chris G wrote: > >> > It sounds like you have both Postfix and Sendmail on the same s

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Larry Stone
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, mouss wrote: so, your client says relay=zbmc.eu[84.45.228.40] and your server says reject: RCPT from unknown[84.45.228.40] So your client and server have the same IP. This means that they run on the same box. is it so? if so, why didn't you say it before?

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread mouss
Le 16/11/2010 19:58, Chris G a écrit : On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:47:26PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:39:49PM +, Chris G wrote: It sounds like you have both Postfix and Sendmail on the same systems, and perhaps confused about which MTA is handling which mail.

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
On 11/16/2010 2:03 PM, Chris G wrote: Er, it's Postfix isn't it? :-) Or have I misunderstood completely (quite likely!). When I 'telnet mws.zbmc.eu 25' from the client it does connect to mws.zbmc.eu (192.168.1.4) and mws.zbmc.eu reports the connection to be coming from 192.168.1.2 which is dps

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:50:02PM +, Chris G wrote: > > > So where is there a system sending this mail which appears to be > > 84.45.228.40? > > > > From what I can see in the logs the mail isn't going out to the outside > >

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:47:26PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:39:49PM +, Chris G wrote: > > > > It sounds like you have both Postfix and Sendmail on the same systems, > > > and perhaps confused about which MTA is handling which mail. > > > > When I say 'sendmail

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:50:02PM +, Chris G wrote: > So where is there a system sending this mail which appears to be > 84.45.228.40? > > From what I can see in the logs the mail isn't going out to the outside > world and coming back in, it's just going from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.4. Th

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:27:56PM -0600, Larry Stone wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Chris G wrote: > > >Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no > >reason at all *why* the postfix server process on mws.zbmc.eu thinks > >that the connection is from 84.45.228.40. > > Be

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:39:49PM +, Chris G wrote: > > It sounds like you have both Postfix and Sendmail on the same systems, > > and perhaps confused about which MTA is handling which mail. > > When I say 'sendmail' I just mean the postfix executable of that name > which is used by mutt (am

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:13:48PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:06:27PM +, Chris G wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:34:38PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Chris G: > > > > Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no > > > > reas

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Larry Stone
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Chris G wrote: Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no reason at all *why* the postfix server process on mws.zbmc.eu thinks that the connection is from 84.45.228.40. Because that's where it came from. Wherever I look on my LAN the IP addres

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:06:27PM +, Chris G wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:34:38PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Chris G: > > > Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no > > > reason at all *why* the postfix server process on mws.zbmc.eu thinks > > > that t

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:34:38PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris G: > > Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no > > reason at all *why* the postfix server process on mws.zbmc.eu thinks > > that the connection is from 84.45.228.40. > > Because the operating syste

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Chris G: > Yes, I realise that "It connects from 84.45.228.40" but I can find no > reason at all *why* the postfix server process on mws.zbmc.eu thinks > that the connection is from 84.45.228.40. Because the operating system kernel said so when Postfix asked. Wietse

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:52:36AM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Chris G wrote: > >I have a small SoHo network of machines and I have postfix installed on > >most of them for sending mail. The machines sit behind a NAT router > >which connects them to the internet, the domain name (as seen from

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Chris G wrote: I have a small SoHo network of machines and I have postfix installed on most of them for sending mail. The machines sit behind a NAT router which connects them to the internet, the domain name (as seen from the outside world) is zbmc.eu. All the machines are running xubuntu 10.0

A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Chris G
I have a small SoHo network of machines and I have postfix installed on most of them for sending mail. The machines sit behind a NAT router which connects them to the internet, the domain name (as seen from the outside world) is zbmc.eu. All the machines are running xubuntu 10.04 and have postfi