From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 10:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725BE14DC5 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:11:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA00546; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:11:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: danielb@pacex.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail host name lookup failures In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 danielb@pacex.net wrote: > 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. java:/u/home/dan $ dig mail-hub.fastlax.com ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> mail-hub.fastlax.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; mail-hub.fastlax.com, type = A, class = IN and whois says No match for domain "FASTLAX.COM". Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message