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From: Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM>
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Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" <Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my>,
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To: "Sean Knox" <wintermage@home.com>,
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I suppose you have checked /etc/mail/local-host-names and put in the IP's for 
which you expect the system to get mail for and also in 
/etc/mai/relay-domains the same thing. gethostbyaddress is telling you "hey, 
i don't know such a place"

--Lanny 
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 01:36, Sean Knox wrote:
> How long should I wait? I let it sit there for about 6-7 minutes and it was
> still hung.
>
> When I do this, the sendmail log shows the following:
>
> May 29 22:35:04 freebsd-1 sendmail[928]: gethostbyaddr(10.10.209.143)
> failed: 1
>
> and nothing more. I have other users still continuing to send email via
> sendmail however; those messages continue to appear while waiting for
> 'sendmail -v username@domain.net' to do something.
>
> Sean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@iowna.com>
> To: "Sean Knox" <wintermage@home.com>
> Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" <Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my>;
> <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users
>
> > Sean Knox wrote:
> > > Sendmail just hangs there when I do a sendmail -v username@domain.net
>
> ...
>
> > It's probably not hung. Wait until the timeouts expire and see what it
> > complains about.
> >
> > --
> > If a bird in the hand
> > is worth two in the bush,
> > then what can I get for
> > two hands in the bush?
>
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