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- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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