Re: No incomming mail

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

This is because the DNS reverse mapping maps your IP (128.61.40.17)
to r40h17.res.gatech.edu rather than greyghost.gt.ed.net. Note the
following:

chilin$ dig 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 2, Addit: 3
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa.      172800  PTR     r40h17.res.gatech.edu.

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
61.128.in-addr.arpa.    172800  NS      troll-gw.gatech.edu.
61.128.in-addr.arpa.    172800  NS      gatech.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
troll-gw.gatech.edu.    604800  A       130.207.166.251
troll-gw.gatech.edu.    604800  A       130.207.244.251
gatech.edu.     604800  A       130.207.244.244

;; Total query time: 5263 msec
;; FROM: chilin to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Jan  8 17:49:33 1998
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 43  rcvd: 182

Thus we know that troll-gw.gatech.edu and gatech.edu are the
nameservers which supply authoritative reverse-mapping for
your IP address. If you want them to change that information,
you'll have to talk to the people who maintain those servers.
Here's what we get from 'whois':

chilin$ whois !GATECH-DOM
Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH-DOM)
   258 4TH St
   Atlanta, Georgia 30332

   Domain Name: GATECH.EDU

   Administrative Contact:
      Herbert Baines III  (HBI-ORG)  Herbert.Baines@OIT.GATECH.EDU
      404.894.0226
Fax- 404.894.9548
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Ron Hutchins  (RH2-ORG)  Ron.Hutchins@OIT.GATECH.EDU
      404.894.6730
Fax- 404.894.9548
   Billing Contact:
      Herbert Baines III  (HBI-ORG)  Herbert.Baines@OIT.GATECH.EDU
      404.894.0226
Fax- 404.894.9548

   Record last updated on 08-Feb-97.
   Record created on 08-May-86.
   Database last updated on 8-Jan-98 10:36:54 EDT.

So it looks like you'll need to contact Ron.Hutchins@OIT.GATECH.EDU
if you want to get your reverse-mapping changed.

Robert Joseph Eckard wrote:

> I received this message when I tried to e-mail my computer from acme:
>
>    ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
> reckard@greyghost.gt.ed.net
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> reckard@greyghost.gt.ed.net... Deferred: Connection refused by
> r40h17.res.gatech.edu.
>
> When I installed Linux, I made sure my hostname was greyghost and my
> domain name was gt.ed.net.  Nowhere did I program my box to be
> r40h17.res.gatech.edu.

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com



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