From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 17 19:51:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial0-velvet.Brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D591F15084 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20821 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:50:21 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:50:19 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail refusing to deliver to domains without MX records Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, Why does sendmail (possibly with FreeBSD default config only) seem to refuse to deliver to a domain or hostname unless it has an MX record? Just now, I tried to send an email to someone@redback.spyda.net and it's queued with the message "host name lookup failure". The IP can be resolved, however it has no MX records. I've seen this happen before, is it a configuration issue or does sendmail do this by itself? The guy I'm trying to email thinks only my system is broken as everyone elses works "without a hassle" Happened on 2.1.5-R and 2.2.7-R (a new install, not an upgrade) But things get stranger... I've just done some checking from a 2.2.2-R machine and it works fine using: echo hello | mail sendmail then enter to/from/subj/body manually pine, composing a normal message Same thing from a 2.2.5-R machine. Anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm sure I've seen the 2.2.2-R machine do this before, but perhaps I'm not remembering too well. Am I going crazy? BTW, the 2.2.7-R machine uses the 2.2.2-R and 2.2.5-R machine as DNS forwarders. On a hunch I removed the forward clause from named.conf (BIND8), restarted named and did sendmail -q, but still the same problem. Thanks for any pointers to solving this odd problem. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe Sensation Internet Services, Melbourne Aust fidonet: 3:635/728 +61-3-9388-9260 http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ http://www.sensation.net.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message