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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de!Uni-Dortmund.DE!Dortmund.Germany.EU. net!castor.MSRO.DeTeMobil.de!news From: Stefan Moeding <moeding@dxca0n.bn.detemobil.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hostname for box w/ part time internet connection Date: 07 Jul 1997 14:01:59 +0200 Organization: Deutsche Telekom Mobilfunk GmbH Lines: 31 Message-ID: <ly90zjdqa0.fsf@dxca0n.bn.DeTeMobil.de> References: <33B462A3.C9A68B9C@auburn.campus.mci.net> <5pknen$l9c$1@the-fly.zip.com.au> <38gqp5.rqd.ln@shift.utell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dxca0n.bn.detemobil.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44271 Hi! brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) writes: > [...] > > With a "dynamic" IP number, you have to get creative. You have to > think of a machine name (the most tricky bit). Think of a name that's > not likely to be used in the real world - say ending in .lan. Once > you've done this (say it's "flacid.twinkletoes.lan"), your mailer > will use this name by default. You've got to make it use > "myname@myisp.net", otherwise people that reply to your mail will > fail to resolve "flacid". Now you're into the "sendmail" world > (unless you know of a better mailer, in which case you don't need > to be reading this - go away). I'm just working on the same problem. There is one thing I'm not certain about: If I let sendmail create the "Message-ID" and "Received" headers (which it should according to the book), they contain references to an "imaginary" host/domain. Is this really ok? A "Received: by mybox.europe.earth.universe" doesn't really give a hint where the message came from. I was hacking leafnode over the weekend to strip the Path-header from my posts, but now it looks like I can ignore my second thoughts and just let sendmail/leafnode slam my private domain onto my posts. Stefan