From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 10:18:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B60837B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasonc@concentric.net) Received: (qmail 75110 invoked from network); 23 May 2001 17:18:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mgm) ([216.27.148.137]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 May 2001 17:18:46 -0000 Message-ID: <000b01c0e3ac$afce8040$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> Reply-To: "jason" From: "jason" To: Subject: email setup problems Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:20:38 -0400 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 I am trying to setup sendmail so I can start getting mail on my bsd machine. I followed the limited info in the online handbook but was unable to successfully get it to send email. The only indication of the problem is the following error that I cant seem to figure out May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 The errors appear at the same time every day. I have only one interface and assigned 3 ip addresses to it. The addresses above are setup as aliases and the 216.27.148.138 has a valid dns hostname assigned by my ISP as well as a domain name I have pointed to it. 192.168.1.2 is my backup connection on another ISP. I also am totally unable to get the machine to receive email from the internet. I have the MX record to point to the main ip 216.27.148.136 but any email sent to my domain is rejected and returned to sender after several days. I need a better resource for setting up my bsd box to send/receive email as well as running pop3 type daemon. The resources on the freebsd.org web site are very limited and leaves me with more questions then when I started. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message