[wplug-bsd] freebsd-questions question

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bill Moran wrote:

> Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I tried to post a message to freebsd-questions at freebsd.org. It's
>> the same question about the tape drive that I posted here about two weeks
>> ago.  Apparently the little gnomes inside the Internet don't want me to
>> know the answer to this question, because freebsd.org won't take it.  It
>> never posted to the mailing list, and running 'mailq' on my system returns
>> the following:
>>
>> 3FAB2101A7     2548 Sat Feb 19 15:37:04  brandon at 301south.net
>> (host mx1.freebsd.org[216.136.204.125] said: 450 <ocean.301south.net>:
>> Helo command rejected: Host not found (in reply to RCPT TO command))
>>                                           freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>
> The FreeBSD mail list server refuses messages from servers without
> proper DNS configs.  Based on the message above, it looks like you don't
> have your domain name in DNS:
>
> bash-2.05b$ host ocean.301south.net
> Host ocean.301south.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> Either put ocean.301south.net in your DNS, or change the hostname to
> something that actually exists in DNS.
>
>

Okay.  I changed postfix's $myhostname parameter to be the masqueraded 
domain (301south.net), but changed $myorigin to reflect the 
(behind-firewall) hostname (ocean.301south.net).  Since I'm doing 
masquerading, I guess that makes more sense.

And hey -- it solved the problem.

Thanks,
Brandon