From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 11:21: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E0737B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust249.tnt15.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.57.105.249]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20585; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA02127; Thu, 10 May 2001 14:20:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105101820.OAA02127@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: sendmail - masquerading user name In-Reply-To: <200105101806.f4AI6jh90499@explorer.rsa.com> from Mikko Tyolajarvi at "May 10, 2001 11:06:45 am" To: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I am able to ping smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Here are the results. PING smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (216.136.173.12): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.136.173.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=220.336 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.173.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=210.088 ms ^C --- smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 210.088/215.212/220.336/5.124 ms I can see it and resolve it, but unfortunately I am not able to use it to relay my outgoing mail like David is. It's very strange. Ian As told by, Mikko Tyolajarvi > In local.freebsd.questions you write: > > > I'm getting Deferred: No route to host when trying to use the > >smtp.mail.yahoo.com relay service. It seems this may be a problem with my > > "No route to host" is normally a lower level network problem. Can you > even ping "smtp.mail.yahoo.com" from the machine running sendmail? If > not, you need to configure your routing... > > >DNS or how this name is getting resolved by sendmail. I am using a > >cache-only DNS on my local box. Here are my resolv.conf entries. > > If it was DNS, sendmail would most likely gripe about that and bounce > the mail :-) > > $.02, > /Mikko > -- > Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com > RSA Security > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message