[ale] mail headers question

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Aug 25 20:40:36 EDT 2004


On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Geoffrey wrote:

> Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> > What are the headers and your network topology?
> 
> I have a linux based firewall that sits between my lan and my dsl 
> connection.  Here's the header that concerns me:
> 
> Received: from 66-23-211-34.clients.speedfactory.net[66.23.211.34] 	
> 	(helo=[192.168.255.106])	by mrelay.perfora.net with ESMTP
> 	(Nemesis),	id 0MKyxe-1C065r0A4k-000612;
> 	Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:18:11 -0400
> 
> Note the reference to 192.168.255.106.  What puzzles me is the 
> conversation per ethereal indicates that 66.23.211.34 is doing all the 
> talking to the smtp server.  66.23.211.34 is my static ip.

Fix Mozilla and / or your hostname. Mozilla (assuming that's the MUA that
you used then too) thinks its hostname is 192.168.255.106, so that's what it
sends in the HELO / EHLO

later,
chris



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