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Subject: Re: Heres one - SMTP / Sendmail Problem
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Pilz" <tech@tznet.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: Heres one - SMTP / Sendmail Problem


>
> Heres one that I bet no one can answer . . .
>
> Take a look at the logs below .. I cannot for the life of me send any
> messages to 'vikingelectric.com' from one paticular machine - all the
> others work just fine. YET, I can ping it and query MX tags just fine
> without a problem:
>
> PLATFORM: 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0:
> Sendmail: 8.12.5
>
>
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ---------Sender/Recipient--------
> g8DIAruR001339        5 Fri Sep 13 13:10 tech
>                  (host map: lookup (vikingelectric.com): deferred)
>                                          tech@vikingelectric.com
>
>
>
>
> # nslookup -q=mx vikingelectric.com
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> vikingelectric.com      preference = 10, mail exchanger =
> gwmail.vikingelectric.
> com
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> vikingelectric.com      nameserver = ns1.vikingelectric.com
> gwmail.vikingelectric.com       internet address = 208.157.215.18
> ns1.vikingelectric.com  internet address = 208.157.215.14
>
> PING gwmail.vikingelectric.com (208.157.215.18): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 208.157.215.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=117 time=98.547 ms
>
> mail -v test@[208.157.215.18] works just fine.
>
> --
> # mail -v test@vikingelectric.com
> Subject: test
> test
> .
> EOT
> vikingelectric.com: Name server timeout
> test@vikingelectric.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for
> future delivery
> test@vikingelectric.com... queued
> --
>
> I'm completely clueless. I have rebooted the box (against my best
> judgement), I have switched domain servers (via resolv.conf) - I have
> tried everything I could think of.
>
> Perhaps it has to do with it being Friday the 13th.
>
> Scott
>
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