[rescue] [MAILER-DAEMON at arkham.ws: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

[Dave McGuire]

On August 21, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > <woods at weird.com>: host mail.weird.com[204.92.254.2] refused to talk to me:
> >    501-HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'mail.arkham.ws'
> >    501-connection rejected from piccalo.arkham.ws remote address
> >    [216.158.63.58]. 501-Reason given was: 501-  the domain name
> >    'mail.arkham.ws' is a CNAME not a hostname (it must be a 501   domain name
> >    resolving to an A record)
> 
> *sigh*  guess i'll be changing that (although i thought i did)

  Yes...it's illegal to point an MX or NS record at a CNAME record.
Use another A record if "mail" isn't the machine's main
(i.e. reverse-resolving) hostname.

> i can most likely dig up an NSI card and a Sun card (although i think they are
> almost the same thing) that i could send to you.  let me see what i have laying
> around here.  if you get these things supported in NetBSD you will be my new
> hero.

  Same here.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD