From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 17:34:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wally.bellnetworks.net (www.bellnetworks.net [216.214.153.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16A3154CB for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerry@wally.bellnetworks.net) Received: from localhost (jerry@localhost) by wally.bellnetworks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26388; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:34:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerry@wally.bellnetworks.net) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:34:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry Bell To: Matthew Schroebel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail to freebsd-questions won't go, cannot find host name In-Reply-To: <19991103010557.25997.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks like hub.freebsd.org is trying to resolve your IP address into a hostname, unsuccessfully. 'nslookup 208.232.158.3' fails, which means you probably need to contact your ISP (or set it yourself, if you are authoritative) to have the reverse lookup for that IP address set to beagle.epooch.com. Hope this helps. Jerry http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Matthew Schroebel wrote: > > I've had sendmail up and running for 6 months now, and > everything works great, unless I send to freebsd.org, > then I get: > > *** ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > *** ... while talking to hub.freebsd.org.: > *** >>> EHLO beagle.epooch.com > *** <<< 450 Cannot find your hostname, [208.232.158.3] > *** ... Deferred: 450 Cannot find > *** your hostname, [208.232.158.3] > *** Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > *** Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > > I've looked in the bat book, and at sendmail.org but > can't find the answer to this. I can EHLO locally, > and everything is fine. Could this be my firewall > blocking a port that sendmail needs? I believe my > localhost.rev is set up properly (yes, I have DNS & > BIND), but since the EHLO has the FQDN, and > hub.freebsd.org knows the IP address, I'm stumped. > > Matt Schroebel mschroebel@epooch.com > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message