From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 15:31:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2itoiocas.fsf@gnus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "17 Dec 2000 17:26:58 -0500"
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> Well, the only thing I can think of is reverse DNS. Many servers
> don't allow connection to them unless the connecting host's IP address
> has a valid reverse DNS entry. The IP address of machine from which I
> was connecting indeed does have a valid reverse DNS entry, and so
> perhaps this is why my connection works.
Bingo... I think you've hit on it. Turns out I can connect to
smtp.newsguy.com from my DSL connection at a different location.
(Same ISP) So apparently they are not supplying it for dialin
accounts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-17 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-17 8:29 Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 9:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 16:53 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 19:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-19 0:13 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-19 1:51 ` Glenn Shiffer
2000-12-19 2:41 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 10:51 ` jas
2000-12-17 16:34 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-17 18:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-12-17 21:01 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 22:45 ` Colin Walters
2000-12-17 23:06 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 21:24 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 22:15 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 22:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:31 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2000-12-17 23:41 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:02 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-18 7:49 ` Steinar Bang
2000-12-17 21:29 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:45 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:03 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:20 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:27 ` Russ Allbery
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