"May be forged"?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 19 September 2003 at  0:56:04 +0000, Mark wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark" <admin at asarian-host.net>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM
> Subject: "May be forged"?
>
>> Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in
>> 8.12.10:
>>
>> AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged),
>> authid=admin
>>
>> That is odd; why would it suddenly say "may be forged"?
>
> Hmm, this wouldn't, by any chance, have anything to do with Verisign's
> latest DNS crap, would it? Kinda like a preemptive caution that a "net"
> domain might be fake?

No, this is the result of a failed reverse DNS lookup or a failed
consistency check between forward and reverse DNS.  Given that the
address is in the non-routable RFC 1918 range, this is to be expected.

Greg
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