From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 31 19:10:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B93106566C for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF44A8FC15 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 9296896; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:10:50 -0500 Received: from [216.143.146.251] (account laura@radel.com HELO Macintosh-2.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 9296890; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:10:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3CF717.7050100@radel.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:10:15 -0800 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20091231180545.GA41589@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20091231180545.GA41589@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: NOW what? 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: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:10:52 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > > My new server is back out of harm's way, but now, upon reboot, no mail. I have > tail -f maillog and get "Domain not found" > > Yes, i did edit my DNS files, but I think i have a backup. Can anybody clue me > in so i don't do this by mistake again? thanks. > > Are we talking about ethic.thought.org? (Personally I think it's a bit arrogant of you to assume we all remember the details of your network from week to week, but I'm a grouch, and other's mileage almost certainly varies.) Is your mail server on ethic.thought.org? If so, you're probably just running into a race condition, given that your *only* nameserver for thought.org is also on ethic. Or at least your only announced nameserver. In other words, your mailserver is quite possibly starting up, attempting a dns lookup and timing out, all before your nameserver is up and running. What happens if you restart just your mailserver at this time? If that doesn't resolve the matter, give us some details about where your nameserver and mailserver live, and give us the contents of /etc/resolv.conf on the mailserver, and tell us for which e-mail addresses e-mail isn't flowing. --Jon Radel jon@radel.com