Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:13:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   2.2.5-R: sendmail not resolving
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101310441590.141-100000@earth.wnm.net>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

I don't know whether this belongs in the sendmail, BIND or FreeBSD
department.

I inherited a 2.2.5-R machine which I can't upgrade at the present. Along
with the antique OS, I got an unsecured sendmail 8.8.7 installation
getting slammed by spammers.

After installing sendmail 8.11.2, I ended up getting the following
puzzling events (testing here by sending to myself from an outside
machine):

Jan 31 04:36:14 xxxx sendmail[18479]: f0VAaEY18477: to=<alex@wnm.net>,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30265,
relay=earth.wnm.net., dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server:
earth.wnm.net.: host not found)

It finds the destination MX but can't look up the corresponding A record
(or for any connection as a matter of fact). Everything else on the
machine is working as before; switching back to 8.8.7 eliminates the
problem.

Hints, solutions or clues appreciated.

-ac


-- 
==============================================================
Alex Charalabidis (AC8139)            5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170
System Administrator                         Memphis, TN 38157
WebNet Memphis                                  (901) 432 6000
Author, The Book of IRC              http://www.bookofirc.com/
==============================================================



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.32.0101310441590.141-100000>