Mail header received from question

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:06:26 +0200, you wrote:

>Ronnie Regev wrote:
>> Received: from filter.daslweb.ca (filter.daslweb.ca.224.39.65.in-addr.arpa
>> [65.39.224.201] (may be forged))
>
> From Sendmail FAQ:
>
>-->
>Q3.38 -- What does "may be forged" mean?
>Date: November 12, 2001
>
>After sendmail does a hostname look-up on the IP address of the
>connecting client, the IP addresses of that hostname are looked up. If
>the client IP address does not appear in that list, then the may be
>forged tag is added.
><--

When you look at the reverse address filter(...)arpa it looks like in
the zone-file for 224.39.65.in-addr.arpa there is a PTR record wrong.
Probably a dot is missing:

201 IN PTR filter.daslweb.ca

instead of

201 IN PTR filter.daslweb.ca.

Ask your nameserver administrator to check it's files.

--
Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ

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