From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 24 16: 2:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7E537B40B; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkohler1@cox.rr.com) Received: from b1m1x9 ([24.163.115.240]) by mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:02:34 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01c12d0a$8751ea60$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> Reply-To: "Ray Kohler" From: "Ray Kohler" To: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" Cc: , References: <000e01c12d01$1becb740$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> <15238.54526.861273.991713@horsey.gshapiro.net> Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:06:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" To: "Ray Kohler" Cc: ; 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message