Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:18:35 +0000 From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting smtp sendmail working Message-ID: <20010510141834.A4808@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200105101721.NAA01379@scarlet.my.domain>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:21:09PM -0400 References: <20010510122443.A3434@yahoo.com> <200105101721.NAA01379@scarlet.my.domain>
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Ian - I am really in the dark here. When _I_ got setup, I followed
the cheat sheets, got help from others and it works. Each time
I do it it seems to take less time, but to be honest I am really
do not understand the significance of these entries.
But if you fix your problems like I do with a little
trial-and-error handy work.. here are my samples of what you showed me.
I _also_ have cache-only DNS on my machine. At least I _think_ it's working.
I really don't know. Lynx works for me fine but I don't know
how that means the caching is working.
I gave my machine the name d.tracker because I ran into some
DNS problems with the single name "tracker"
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:21:09PM -0400, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I'm getting Deferred: No route to host when trying to use the
> smtp.mail.yahoo.com relay service. It seems this may be a problem with my
> DNS or how this name is getting resolved by sendmail. I am using a
> cache-only DNS on my local box. Here are my resolv.conf entries.
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 207.217.120.83
> nameserver 207.217.77.82
Mine says
nameserver 216.13.85.13
nameserver 207.181.101.4
>
> The last two are DNS's used by earthlink customers, the first of course
> is my box. I do have cache only name server I set up using the info in the
> Complete FreeBSD. Here is localhost.rev.
>
> @ IN SOA scarlet.my.domain. root.scarlet.my.domain. (
> 20010428 ; Serial
> 3600 ; Refresh
> 900 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 3600 ) ; Minimum
> IN NS scarlet.my.domain.
> 1 IN PTR localhost.my.domain.
Mine says;
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA d.tracker. root.d.tracker. (
20000924 ; Serial
3600 ; Refresh
900 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
3600 ) ; Minimum
IN NS d.tracker.
1 IN PTR localhost.d.tracker.
>
> The appropriate parts of named.conf are ...
>
> forwarders {
> 207.217.120.83; 207.217.77.82; 127.0.0.1;
> };
Mine;
forwarders {
127.0.0.1;
};
>
> and ...
>
> zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
> type master;
> file "localhost.rev";
> };
Mine;
zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};
> Lynx works for all the websites I need to go to so it seems that the
> cache only name server is working. I can also send mail without a problem
> through earthlink's smtp relay. This problem really has me stumped, but it
> seems like a solution is just around the corner.
>
> Ian
> As told by, David Banning
> > > If you want the SMTP service, look up the MXesv for the domain:
> > >
> > > [rasputin@dogma rasputin]$ dig yahoo.com mx
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > > yahoo.com. 21m17s IN MX 1 mx3.mail.yahoo.com.
> > > yahoo.com. 21m17s IN MX 9 mta-v6.mail.yahoo.com.
> > > yahoo.com. 21m17s IN MX 1 mx1.mail.yahoo.com.
> > > yahoo.com. 21m17s IN MX 1 mx2.mail.yahoo.com.
> > >
> > >
> > > Telnet to port 25 (smtp) opens a session to tthe smtp port of the mailserver.
> > > Since that's how your mail client sends mail, you need to be
> > > able to hit port 25 to send mail.
> >
> > This is helpful. Thanks.
> >
> > > Although I doubt a web-based mail service
> > > would let you send mail through them like that. Then again...
> >
> > works for me...
> > bash-2.03$ mail -v david@banning.com
> > Subject: test
> > test message
> > EOT
> >
> > david@banning.com... Connecting to smtp.mail.yahoo.com via relay...
> > 220 smtp014.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP
> > >>> EHLO d.tracker
> > 250-smtp014.mail.yahoo.com
> > 250-PIPELINING
> > 250 8BITMIME
> > >>> MAIL From:<sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
> > 250 ok
> > >>> RCPT To:<david@banning.com>
> > 250 ok
> > >>> DATA
> > 354 go ahead
> > >>> .
> > 250 ok 989510681 qp 88007
> > david@banning.com... Sent (ok 989510681 qp 88007)
> > Closing connection to smtp.mail.yahoo.com
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