From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 13:38:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF48137B401 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C459E43E7B for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl) Received: from fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.94.168] with ESMTP id WAA28830 (8.8.8/1.13); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:38:34 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Simon Siemonsma To: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix can't resolve IP adress Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:38:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200208191815.03045.simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> <20020819200335.GA4531@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020819200335.GA4531@grimoire.chen.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208192238.36071.simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 19 August 2002 22:03, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > > When I try to send mail via postfix I get the following message: > > > > Aug 19 17:47:38 fia168-94 postfix/smtp[1418]: BD1EFA1: > > to=, relay=none, delay=25112, status=deferred > > (Name service error for freebsd.org: Host not found, try again) > > Sending to the FreeBSD lists requires that: > 1. the host you're sending from has an IP that has a PTR entry. > 2. The PTR entry has a DNS entry. > 3. Your host has to announce itself as a host with a DNS entry. > I just used a line as an example. I have the same problem with hccnet.nl which is my own provider. Seems postfix is not able to send mail anymore. > I suspect you need to configure Postfix to satisfy condition (3). > Dunno how to do that under Postfix, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message