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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:12:38 -0400
From:      "bill" <bill@TechServSys.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   (Fwd) Re: Sendmail says, "Invalid domain name":solved
Message-ID:  <3D676A26.23777.ACA5C83@localhost>

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On 23 Aug 2002 at 10:06, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> On Friday 23 August 2002 09:57 am, bill wrote:
> > I found the rejected posting in clientmqueue so I now know that sendmail
> > reports this error:
> >     510 5.0.0 Invalid domain name
> >
> > I tried putting the domain name in /etc/hosts, to no avail.
> > nslookup can find the domain from the nameserver to which I point, anyone
> > have any ideas why sendmail rejects the domain ?
> >
> > bill
> >
> 
> Have you checked your reverse-domain? 
> 

no matter what you say in resolv.conf Sendmail must have a dns that works 
and returns the domain.  I solved this by changing the dns for tss to the new 
domain name to the test/local address and my problems all went away.
(OK, not all my problems, I still need to work for a living.....)

-bill-


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