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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:38:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jeff Gentry <freebsd@hexdump.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Sendmail/'host name lookup failure'
Message-ID:  <20031120153745.Q4654@hellfire.hexdump.org>

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Hello ...

The other day I rebooted my FreeBSD machine.  Ever since then, messages to
hotmail.com and yahoogroups.com are not going through - the mail logs
report that there is a 'host name lookup failure' to the specific MX
hosts (eg 'mx1.hotmail.com').  The thing is though, I can run dig/nslookup
on these hotsnames perfectly fine - in fact I can even telnet to port
25 of all of these hostnames, issue a HELO, etc.

Does anyone have an idea what might be going on here?



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