From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 19 19:33:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A11E16A42D for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 19:33:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A15043D46 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 19:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4JJX0Ov042018; Fri, 19 May 2006 14:33:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <446E1D67.4030500@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:32:55 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Goriachev References: <446DF046.2060401@webanoide.org> <20060519182628.GA96467@gothmog.pc> <446E16C2.4050908@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: <446E16C2.4050908@webanoide.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: :::. Sendmail on FreeBSD -> Deferred: Operation timed out with X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:33:09 -0000 Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2006-05-20 02:20, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Sendmail and I aren't getting along well. I got this FreeBSD >>> 6.0-RELEASE-p7 box doing SMTP work for me. Everything is fine, but a few >>> domains give me headaches with "Deferred: Operation timed out with >>> " errors. One domain in particular I'm trying to get to >>> work is hospitaldeninos.cl >>> >>> $ host hospitaldeninos.cl >>> hospitaldeninos.cl has address 200.31.44.1 >>> mail is handled by 4 nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl. >>> mail is handled by 5 mail.hospitaldeninos.cl. >>> >>> Whenever I try to send anything to that domain I just get the following >>> in my logs: >>> >>> [...] delay=01:00:57, xdelay=00:01:15, mailer=esmtp, pri=210425, >>> relay=mail.hospitaldeninos.cl. [200.29.150.146], dsn=4.0.0, >>> stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.hospitaldeninos.cl. >> For some reason, your Sendmail setup tries to find out the IP address of >> the MX for `hospitaldeninos.cl' and it resolves this to the wrong mail >> server: >> >> mail.hospitaldeninos.cl >> >> This would tend to work fine, as long as either one of the two MX hosts >> of the domain accepted email, but there are also problems connecting to >> the `mail.hospitaldeninos.cl:SMTP' service too. >> Don't know if this helps at all, but here's something that I can't fully explain (and found interesting). [admin@foobar][~] host hospitaldeninos.cl hospitaldeninos.cl has address 200.31.44.1 hospitaldeninos.cl mail is handled by 4 nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl. hospitaldeninos.cl mail is handled by 5 mail.hospitaldeninos.cl. [admin@foobar][~] telnet mail.hospitaldeninos.cl 25 Trying 200.29.150.146... telnet: connect to address 200.29.150.146: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host [admin@foobar][~] telnet nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl 25 nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution [admin@foobar][~] host nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl has address 200.29.150.147 And that's a cut-n-paste, so whassup with DNS in re: this NT_SQL server? If I knew that, I could maybe help Mikhail... but: >> What do the following files contain in the FreeBSD system that fails to >> resolve the MX records correctly? >> Could be the records themselves; `dig hospitaldeninos.cl` returns no MX records.... Kevin Kinsey