From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 17 20: 5:15 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 A974914C99 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:05:09 -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 PAA20880 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:04:44 +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 15:04:43 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail refusing to deliver to domains without MX records In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Rowan Crowe wrote: > 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? [...] > 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. Following up on this, although sendmail -q didn't work, the 30 minute retry (from the ORIGINAL delivery attempt time) did. Very strange. I waited for syslog to show that named was "ready to answer queries" before I did sendmail -q ... perhaps it was still too soon? 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