Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:13:21 +0300 From: "Abdullah Al-Marrie" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host" Message-ID: <499c70c0612042313v56cf26fald792743983723a86@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061204195429.GA920@host.my.domain> References: <20061204195429.GA920@host.my.domain>
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On 12/4/06, a@zeos.net <a@zeos.net> wrote: > What is the difference between "No address associated with name" > and "Unknown host": > > $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie > ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name > > and > > $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i > ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.i: Unknown host > > The source of my interest is the next. > > My sendmail receives mail from senders with domains like the first, > but rejects mail from the last: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 host.my.domain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.7/8.13.6; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:38:50 +0200 > (EET) > HELO localhost > 250 host.my.domain Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you > MAIL From: asdf@accounts.eirtrade.ie > 250 2.1.0 asdf@accounts.eirtrade.ie... Sender ok > RSET > 250 2.0.0 Reset state > MAIL From: asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i > 553 5.1.8 asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i... Domain of sender address > asdf@accounts.eirtrade.i does not exist > QUIT > 221 2.0.0 host.my.domain closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Elisej Babenko I get the same problem with my laptop which uses DHCP in FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 and earlier was using 6.1-S, this happens to me regurarely even I just opened an address in FF, then again trying to open same host via FF. Is there away to cache dns locally in my laptop? Thank you, -Abdullah
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