[ringzero] Re: (OT) Apache Named Virtual Hosting question
- From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ringzero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:35:04 -0600
Godwin Stewart wrote:
> But that is what is being added by the yahpoo server, *not* what your
> machine is saying. A mailer doesn't add "Received:" headers, only an
> MTA does.
>
> Take another look at the headers:
>
> Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?)
>
> This header was added **BY THE MACHINE TO WHICH YOU'RE HANDING OFF THE
> MAIL, NOT BY YOUR MACHINE**. It is saying that it was unable to resolve
> rDNS from your public IP address ("unknown") and that it was contacted
> by a machine that identified itself as "?192.168.1.3?"
> ("HELO ?192.168.1.3?").
>
> It is probably your mailer that's responsible for this. I suggest you
> make sure that you have the correct entry in /etc/hosts file on your
> workstation:
>
> 192.168.1.3 domain_name_which_resolves_to_your_public_ip_address
>
> For example:
>
> 192.168.1.3 robertwittig.org
>
> Thunderbird should then know that the machine it's running on,
> 192.168.1.3, should be called "robertwittig.org" and should say
> "HELO robertwittig.org" instead of "HELO ?192.168.1.3?" from that point
> onwards. If not, it's b0rken.
>
Ok... I never put such an entry in /etc/hosts before, because it never
occurred to me to do so. I set this machine up long before I had a LAN,
when I was still on dial-up, and at that time, was still clueless about
Linux in general.
Even today, this still does not quite 'compute' for me, because this
machine is using a public IP address that does not resolve to any actual
domain name... it is just a Desktop machine, and the public IP addy it
uses, does not resolve to any registered domain name.
Just for the heck of, to see what happens, I did add the line:
192.168.1.3 robertwittig.org
...to /etc/hosts, and I rebooted the machine.
Now I will post this, and examine my email header, to see what happened.
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