Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 19:29:31 -0500 From: Ben Compton <peabody@icedragon.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mail and FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020301191329.00aa0e98@mail.cablenet-va.com>
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--=====================_89669507==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hey folks, I have an odd mail issue that I am in desperate search of a fix for. I run a server on my college's network. The server was able to send mail within our domain until I did some upgrades on the system and installed FreeBSD 4.5. The server can now send mail to anywhere on the planet as long as it is not in our domain (ie mail you@yourdomain.com works where as mail me@mydomain.com doesn't). The message is held in the queue and is never sent to our campus mail server. After watching what happens with a packet analyzer I discovered my server never talks to our main mail server. It talks to our DNS servers and after some really weird attempts it finally gets the MX record for our domain and the does nothing with it. The messages are always returned saying that the mail is deferred and the operation timed out with mailserver.mydomain.com. I know this has to be something on my server end because no other changes in our network have been put into place. The mail server has not been changed or re configured nor have the DNS servers been altered. I also know it not something in my sendmail.cf as I have never had to change it before and I have been running FreeBSD since version 4.1 without any hitches. All of my binaries are as installed by the system and the sendmail.cf file is the same way. The weirdness I spoke of from the packet analyzer is that the server requests info on itself form the DNS server first by asking for info on server.mydomain.com and then server.mydomain.com.mydomain.com The same thing happens on to the request for the mailserver (mailserver.mydomain.com and then mailserver.mydomain.com.mydomain.com) I've checked my hosts file and nothing is amiss there and have also checked my rc.conf file to make sure it isn't setting my server and domain name incorrectly. Does anyone have any clue as to what is going on? This problem is also occuring on another server on campus that is running FreeBSD 4.5. Both can receive mail from anywhere including other on campus sites....they just can't send on campus. HELP!!!!! I'm not on the listserv so please reply directly to me. Thanks in advance for your help. I will provide any additional information you may need. Thanks Ben Compton Co-Webmaster IceDragon.com Underground Game Network http://www.icedragon.com --=====================_89669507==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> Hey folks,<br><br> I have an odd mail issue that I am in desperate search of a fix for. I run a server on my college's network. The server was able to send mail within our domain until I did some upgrades on the system and installed FreeBSD 4.5. The server can now send mail to anywhere on the planet as long as it is not in our domain (ie mail you@yourdomain.com works where as mail me@mydomain.com doesn't). The message is held in the queue and is never sent to our campus mail server. After watching what happens with a packet analyzer I discovered my server never talks to our main mail server. It talks to our DNS servers and after some really weird attempts it finally gets the MX record for our domain and the does nothing with it. The messages are always returned saying that the mail is deferred and the operation timed out with mailserver.mydomain.com. I know this has to be something on my server end because no other changes in our network have been put into place. The mail server has not been changed or re configured nor have the DNS servers been altered. I also know it not something in my sendmail.cf as I have never had to change it before and I have been running FreeBSD since version 4.1 without any hitches.<br><br> All of my binaries are as installed by the system and the sendmail.cf file is the same way. <br><br> The weirdness I spoke of from the packet analyzer is that the server requests info on itself form the DNS server first by asking for info on server.mydomain.com and then server.mydomain.com.mydomain.com The same thing happens on to the request for the mailserver (mailserver.mydomain.com and then mailserver.mydomain.com.mydomain.com)<br><br> I've checked my hosts file and nothing is amiss there and have also checked my rc.conf file to make sure it isn't setting my server and domain name incorrectly. Does anyone have any clue as to what is going on? This problem is also occuring on another server on campus that is running FreeBSD 4.5. Both can receive mail from anywhere including other on campus sites....they just can't send on campus. HELP!!!!! I'm not on the listserv so please reply directly to me.<br><br> Thanks in advance for your help. I will provide any additional information you may need. Thanks<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> <font size=3D5><b><i>Ben Compton<br> </i></font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times" size=3D4>Co-Webmaster<br> IceDragon.com Underground Game Network<br><br> </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times" size=3D5><u><a= href=3D"http://www.icedragon.com/"= eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.icedragon.com</a><br>; </font></b></u></html> --=====================_89669507==_.ALT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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