From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 9:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (mail0.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8E614CE1 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from siteplus.com (host-216-78-83-34.cha.bellsouth.net [216.78.83.34]) by mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id MAA15648; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:55:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3870E2BC.1A6F5C49@siteplus.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:56:13 -0500 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i486) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: danielb@pacex.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail host name lookup failures References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would assume that your local machine has a private ip address. 192.168.0- or if not on a lan 127.0.0.1. This is reflected in the mail header as sender hence the error. These addresses are not available on the net. If the mail is being delivered I don't think you have anything to worry about. Good luck, Jim danielb@pacex.net wrote: > Hi and welcome back everybody; > > I have a sendmail install on one of my machines that does nothing but > forward all mail to a central mail hub (mail-hub.fastlax.com); > sendmail-8.9.3 on FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE. > > in sendmail.cf: > --------------- > Fw/etc/sendmail.cw > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > DSmail-hub.fastlax.com > > # Who I masquerade as (null for no masquerade) > DMfastlax.com > > #Who gets all local email traffic > DHmail-hub.$m > > everything seems to work 'OK' i.e mail is being sent and received nothing > gets lost but in /var/log/maillog I see error: > Sendmail[11233] to=danielb@fastlax.com, ... relay=mail-hub.fastlax.com., > stat=deferred: Name server: mail-hub.fastlax.com: host name lookup failure > > This can't be because the deferred mail has been sent and show-up in my > mailbox and the host mail-hub.fastlax.com exists! nslookup ans telnet to > port 25. > > Why do I keep getting this error messages. > > Sendmail sucks-up sooo much administrative time it is not funny! > Thanks > > Dan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message