From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 20:26:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26402 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26391 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00327; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Kurt Schafer cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another approach to sendmail In-Reply-To: <199609070048.UAA04470@wave.cyberbeach.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Kurt Schafer wrote: > I thank all those who have attempted to help me work out my outbound sendmail > nightmare. I think I've jumped into the middle of this. I claim no knowledge of sendmail. :-) > DNS seems to be reversing properly. At least I know it is working locally > although my Cisco has been giving me some headaches too lately. Perhaps it is > blocking DNS info ? Could somebody try resolving wave.cyberbeach.net > (my mail/http/shell machine) as well as a reverse lookup for 205.150.79.11 > (same machine) Here you go: gdi,ttyp2,~,17>host wave.cyberbeach.net wave.cyberbeach.net has address 205.150.79.11 gdi,ttyp2,~,18>dig -x 205.150.79.11 ; <<>> DiG 2.1 <<>> -x ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 11.79.150.205.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: 11.79.150.205.in-addr.arpa. 3600 PTR wave.cyberbeach.net. ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: 79.150.205.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 3600 NS dude.cyberbeach.net. 79.150.205.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 3600 NS wave.cyberbeach.net. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: dude.cyberbeach.net. 86400 A 205.150.79.10 wave.cyberbeach.net. 86400 A 205.150.79.11 ;; Total query time: 784 msec ;; FROM: gdi.uoregon.edu to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 6 20:19:10 1996 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 44 rcvd: 165 > Outbound mail traffic times out 95% of the time. (probably more) Users can > send each other mail without problems via popper or by logging into the unix > box (FreeBSD 2.1.5) and people from the outside world can send mail in > quite happily. Just no go out. Hm. From what I see it's more than just sendmail. Have y ou tried telnet, ftp, etc. to other servers in an interactive session? > God. Things go so well for so long, then everything goes wrong all at once. > On a side note, perhaps if people could try our WWW page at www.cyberbeach.net > while they are at it. I'm getting paranoid about that rickety old Cisco. I'm trying it right now and I'm not getting anything past a connection. I'm running a traceroute from here and I'm not getting anything except * * *'s past 192.197.158.242 (one hop off `main-ethernet0.backbone2.toronto.uunet.ca'). > In conclusion, can anybody run off any kind of list that could cause > sendmail to time out all the time ? Even transfers to ISP's in the same > city die all the time. Sounds more like either bad cabling or bad outbound routing. It works one way and not the other. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major