From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 21 20:35:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.cyberbeach.net (smtp10.cyberbeach.net [216.104.96.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4271337B404 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from apfortin (cable116-34.sudbury.cyberbeach.net [216.104.116.34]) by smtp10.cyberbeach.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g1M4YDW00785 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:34:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from apfortin@cyberbeach.net) From: "Andre Fortin" To: Subject: Sendmail prematurely failing send attempts Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:35:12 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Disposition-Notification-To: "Andre Fortin" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I'm running sendmail 8.11.6 on a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE system. I'm having a problem with one particular ISP, when sending mail to them. Earlier, the ISP had a lame DNS entry for their mail server, and my sendmail system started deferring messages destined to that ISP. The problem is, the DNS is fine now, and I can even telnet to port 25 on that mail server from my mail server. MX lookups are also fine. Everything seems AOK. The problem is, even after totally wiping(actually, I just moved) the queue, the messages are still being deferred, with the error 'stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.otherisp.com.'. This is odd considering a telnet session to that ISP works perfectly fine.. I have restarted the sendmail daemon, killed it and waited for all processes to end, waited a bit longer, turned it back on, with the same result. Starting sendmail with -X shows that there is absolutely no exchange of data between our mail server and theirs. netstat -an shows no active or TIME_WAIT connections to their mail server... Sendmail simply isnt even trying at all... Forcing with sendmail -qRisp.com simply spits out a bunch of 'deferred' messages and never even tries the first time. The only thing I can think of that I haven't done is reboot the whole server, however I'd like to avoid that if I can(its bad enough I have to shut down a server with a 400 day uptime on it soon due to a movie, I want to build up a new high-uptime FBSD machine as soon as possible :)). Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Andre apfortin@cyberbeach.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message