From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 2:19:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8456E37B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 02:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wintermage@home.com) Received: from sean ([65.11.84.4]) by femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010530091910.BTHC20096.femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com@sean>; Wed, 30 May 2001 02:19:10 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01c0e8e9$1358e1f0$0201a8c0@sean> From: "Sean Knox" To: "Kelsey Cummings" , References: <3B14F2B1.19722.2D8B0A9@localhost> <3B14858A.A63BF391@iowna.com> <01053003334505.20931@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <20010530004247.D78954@wingerboy.sonic.net> Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 02:15:31 -0700 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reverse DNS is in place for the 10 subnet. The interface 10.10.209.143 stated by gethostbyaddr is not being used, and I have not put it in DNS yet. Shutting off the interface prevents that message from displaying. - Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelsey Cummings" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:42 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users > > This sounds more like a DNS issue to me. Do you have reverse DNS in place > for the 10/net? If not, the easy fix is to add the address to /etc/hosts > and forget about it. > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:33:45AM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > > 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" > > > To: "Sean Knox" > > > Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" ; > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= > > Lanny Baron > > FreeBSD Systems, Inc. > > Freedom Technologies Corp. > > 1.877.963.1900 > > http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kelsey Cummings - kgc@sonic.net sonic.net > System Administrator 300 B Street, Ste 101 > 707.522.1000 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95404 > 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/ > Fingerprint = 7F 59 43 1B 44 8A 0D 57 91 08 73 73 7A 48 90 C5 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message