From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 3:13:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E66B37B503 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0VBDOX29222 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:13:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f0VBDNk29214 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:13:23 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:13:23 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: 2.2.5-R: sendmail not resolving Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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=, 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