From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 15:29:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from datanerds.net (pi.datanerds.net [63.75.38.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1870B37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46714 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2000 23:29:05 -0000 Received: from ro01-204-210-180-54.ce.mediaone.net (HELO syn) (204.210.180.54) by pi.datanerds.net with SMTP; 19 Nov 2000 23:29:05 -0000 Message-ID: <005f01c05280$8454dee0$0201a8c0@datasurge.net> From: "Michael Davis" To: "H. Wade Minter" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Bizarre email problem Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:29:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----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" To: 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 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