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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Earl" <mailinglists@telus.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem


> > > When I know try to send a mail to 'userone' with 'mail -v
> > > userone' I get the following error (same error in
> > > /var/spool/clientmqueue): userone... Connecting to
> > > localhost.mydomain. via relay... userone... Deferred:
> > > Connection refused by localhost.mydomain.
> >
> > One more thing to add: This works fine, when I am connected
> > to my ISP. So this might be a problem with DNS configuration?
>
> I just had a similar problem with a couple of my machines.
>
> Try changing the 'search' line in resolv.conf to a "local domain name."
>
> For instance, my /etc/resolv.conf file is like this:
>
> search localdomain.net
> nameserver ?.?.?.? (real dns servers)
> nameserver ?.?.?.?
>
> And my /etc/hosts file:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain.net
> 192.168.19.1 gateway gateway.localdomain.net
> ...
>
> sendmail_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf

Why disable sendmail?

> My big problem was my isp's DHCP server was assigning me a
> domain-name which would change my resolv.conf file. To solve that
> I had to add a supersede line in dhclient.conf.

Yeah. Had a similar problem on a local box. I also added a "prepend
domain-name" and "prepend domain-name-servers" line to dhclient.conf; like
so:

prepend domain-name "ns-cache-0.ns.nl.demon.net ";
prepend domain-name-servers 194.159.73.135;
supersede domain-name "ns-cache-0.ns.nl.demon.net "

The trailing spaces ARE intentional. That worked like a charm. Substitute
your own ISP, of course.

- Mark


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