Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:29:07 -0600 From: "Michael Davis" <mike@datanerds.net> To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bizarre email problem Message-ID: <005f01c05280$8454dee0$0201a8c0@datasurge.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011191815380.6199-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am having the exact same problem on a webserver I have. I am using: FreeBSD xxxxx 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 1 16:18:24 CDT 2000 mad@xxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/WWW i386 I am totally stumped as well. I even tried a completely different sendmail configuration. Michael Davis Chief Technical Officer Data Nerds, LLC. http://www.datanerds.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 5:16 PM Subject: Bizarre email problem > I've run into a situation that's got me completely stumped. I'm > running FreeBSD-4.2 Beta (cvsup'd and rebuilt last night) in a > virtual hosting environment. I have to machines, ashburn and > bunning. ashburn is the web host, bunning is the mail host. > > Most of our hosts use the ip address of ashburn, but a few have > their own IPs, aliased onto ashburn. Yesterday, I had to change > those IPs to new ones, also aliased onto ashburn. When I did that, > however, strange mail stuff started happening. > > Clients on ashburn have various CGI scripts to send email. After > the change, mail that originates on ashburn for the domains that > got the new IP addresses is trying to be delievered directly to > ashburn, even though nslookup shows that ashburn knows that the > preferred MX host is > bunning. There's nothing for these hosts in sendmail.cw or the > virtusertable, either. If I try to send mail directly to > "user@affected_domain.com" from ashburn, it bounces immediately > with "Unknown user". Mail sent from outside ashburn gets to the > correct place. > > The problem looks like the local sendmail on ashburn believes that > these domains are listed in the sendmail.cw file, which they're > not. > > If anyone has any idea what could be going on, I'd love to hear it. > I'm completely stumped. > > --Wade > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOhhiQfiUqZ9dnoKsEQKAOgCg40ZsYRr24RoGT+yHcq+jCdpUsnoAoPJI JrVEgzWVE4JfXdps0G371ffJ =Ewsg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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