From: "Dan Lazin" <dan@alphamale.ab.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail no longer relaying, now giving me 'Host unknown' error Message-ID: <00d901bedea3$26539540$ba9cb8a1@dan> References: <010001bede46$9e273840$ba9cb8a1@dan> <37A82369.3DC4068C@prime.net.ua>
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I've forced sendmail to queue the mail. I then sent it one message to my user account (which, as usual, still got to me after the queue-process) and another to my geocities account via the 'booty' alias. I then ran sendmail with flags -q -v -t as suggested. The output is below. Any ideas why the name server is returning this response? It happens with any alias on the server that references to an external address. My suspicion is that sendmail is querying the local named, which shouldn't be running (I'm using my upstream DNS instead, which insists that all of these domains exist), and is likely broken if it is. How do I check that? I've also just sent a message straight to bootymasta@geocities.com from pine (via telnet off the problem machine), and it also returned a message saying that mail2b.geo.yahoo.com could not be found. What is sendmail doing? esther# /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v -t Running LAA01785 (sequence 1 of 2) <booty@hardcore.ab.ca>... aliased to bootymasta@geocities.com bootymasta@geocities.com... Connecting to mail.geocities.com. via esmtp... bootymasta@geocities.com... Connecting to mail1b.geo.yahoo.com. via esmtp... bootymasta@geocities.com... Connecting to mail1a.geo.yahoo.com. via esmtp... bootymasta@geocities.com... Connecting to mail2a.geo.yahoo.com. via esmtp... bootymasta@geocities.com... Connecting to mail2b.geo.yahoo.com. via esmtp... bootymasta@geocities.com... Host unknown (Name server: mail2b.geo.yahoo.com.: host not found) <dan@alphamale.ab.ca>... Connecting to local... 220 esther.su.ualberta.ca LMTP ready >>> LHLO esther.su.ualberta.ca 250-esther.su.ualberta.ca 250-8BITMIME 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250 PIPELINING >>> MAIL From:<> 250 2.5.0 ok >>> RCPT To:<dan> 250 2.1.5 ok >>> DATA 354 go ahead >>> . 250 2.1.5 dan OK <dan@alphamale.ab.ca>... Sent Running LAA01783 (sequence 2 of 2) >>> RSET 250 2.0.0 ok <dan@esther.su.ualberta.ca>... Using cached LMTP connection for local... >>> MAIL From:<dan@alphamale.ab.ca> BODY=7BIT 250 2.5.0 ok >>> RCPT To:<dan> 250 2.1.5 ok >>> DATA 354 go ahead >>> . 250 2.1.5 dan OK <dan@esther.su.ualberta.ca>... Sent Closing connection to local >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 bye ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy V. Oleynik <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: Dan Lazin <dan@alphamale.ab.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 5:26 AM Subject: Re: sendmail no longer relaying, now giving me 'Host unknown' error > It's difficult to say what is the problem. I recommend U > to force sendmail on ur relay-server to just queue the mail. > Then send mail from ur home (it will be queued). Then > run sendmail -q -v -t to process queue and see what's > going on. Or try to telnet from ur home/relay PC to > geocities port 25 and walk through SMTP session and > again see what's going on. U may send the results here > to let guys analize them for U. I think ur sendmail's m4 > macro file would be helpfull too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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