Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:06:17 -0700 From: "Ray Kohler" <rkohler1@cox.rr.com> To: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup Message-ID: <000f01c12d0a$8751ea60$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> References: <000e01c12d01$1becb740$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> <15238.54526.861273.991713@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Ray Kohler" <ray.kohler@mail.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup
> rkohler1> Maybe I've missed something here, but recently (mayeb
last week or
> rkohler1> so?) sendmail started to hang for a bit while booting
and will no
> rkohler1> longer send any mail even when it does finish booting.
I'm using the
> rkohler1> default sendmail config (the only thing I need it for is
to read the
> rkohler1> output of cron jobs and run fetchmail). The problem for
me is that I
> rkohler1> don't have a "real" IP, it's DHCP-assigned from the
nonroutable
> rkohler1> 192.168.1.0/8 subnet. My /etc/hosts entry for this box
just gives it
> rkohler1> an IP of 0.0.0.0, I don't know what else to do for it.
How can I get
> rkohler1> my mail working again?
>
> You might consider setting this:
>
> confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES DontProbeInterfaces
> [False] If set, sendmail will _not_
> insert the names and addresses of any
> local interfaces into class {w}
> (list of known "equivalent" addresses).
>
> Without it, sendmail will try a reverse DNS lookup on each
interface
> address.
That didn't fix it either. (And I made sure to do it right - the
proper 'O' line made it into sendmail.cf and sendmail was killed and
restarted.) As I said elsewhere, sendmail's gethostbyaddr()'s are
failing, and they have the right address.
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