From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:55:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376C716A4B3 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:55:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from mail5.ukrtel.net (mail5.ukrtel.net [195.5.6.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEFF43DBB for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:54:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from 25-17-207-82.pool.ukrtel.net ([82.207.17.25] helo=host.my.domain) by mail5.ukrtel.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrJrj-0002rh-TL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:52:40 +0200 Received: from host.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host.my.domain (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kB4JsT9j000995 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:54:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: (from elisej@localhost) by host.my.domain (8.13.7/8.13.6/Submit) id kB4JsTxk000994 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:54:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:54:29 +0200 From: a@zeos.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061204195429.GA920@host.my.domain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:55:41 -0000 What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host": $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.i: Unknown host The source of my interest is the next. My sendmail receives mail from senders with domains like the first, but rejects mail from the last: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 host.my.domain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.7/8.13.6; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:38:50 +0200 (EET) HELO localhost 250 host.my.domain Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you MAIL From: asdf@accounts.eirtrade.ie 250 2.1.0 asdf@accounts.eirtrade.ie... Sender ok RSET 250 2.0.0 Reset state MAIL From: asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i 553 5.1.8 asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i... Domain of sender address asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i does not exist QUIT 221 2.0.0 host.my.domain closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elisej Babenko