Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:41:20 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Bas Hendriks <bas@cybox.nl> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail: Deferred: Name server: xxx.xxx.xxx: host name lookup failure Message-ID: <44BBA190.6070107@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <44BB9EFE.8040409@cybox.nl> References: <44BB9EFE.8040409@cybox.nl>
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Bas Hendriks wrote: > I have a problem with one of my servers, > Suddenly i am getting a lot of "Deferred: Name server: xxx.xxx.xxx: host > name lookup failure" while DNS resolving on that box is ok(from the > command line de backend servers do resolve and are reachable). The mail > stays in the mailqueue. That's normal when a spam-run drops a lot of mail in the queue before someone at the registrar yanks the DNS registration. You can manually flush the queue with a shorter or zero retry interval to clean up the queue of this stuck mail via sendmail -q.... -- -Chuck
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