Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:57:50 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Hexren" <me@hexren.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re[2]: Sendmail host lookup problem Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEEKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <6843020820.20050206234839@hexren.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Hexren > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:49 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re[2]: Sendmail host lookup problem > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Hexren > >> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:46 PM > >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Sendmail host lookup problem > >> > >> > >> I have a LAN in the 192.168.0 range. I am trying to send mail from > >> 192.168.0.78 (gc-infra.steenbuck.net) to 192.168.0.29 > >> (bettchen.steenbuck.net). > >> This leeds to 550 errors. "Host unknown (Name server: > >> bettchen.steenbuck.net: host not found)" > >> > >> 192.168.0.29 is also acting as my DNS Server. Both machines > >> have correct (or so I hope) entries in the nameserver. > > TM> Either you don't have correct entries in the nameserver, or your > TM> /etc/resolv.conf on gc-infra is not using 192.168.0.29 as it's > TM> nameserver. > > TM> What is the output of nslookup on gc-infra when you key in > TM> the bettchen.steenbuck.net name? What is it when you issue > TM> a "set type=mx" at the nslookup prompt followed by the > TM> bettchen.steenbuck.net name? What is it when you key in the > TM> IP number 192.168.0.29? > > TM> Ted > TM> _______________________________________________ > TM> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > TM> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > TM> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > --------------------------------------------- > > [gc-infra:~]#nslookup bettchen.steenbuck.net > Server: 192.168.0.29 > Address: 192.168.0.29#53 > This is a problem, the output should read: Server: bettchen.steenbuck.net Address: 192.168.0.29 Name: bettchen.steenbuck.net Address: 192.168.0.29 > Name: bettchen.steenbuck.net > Address: 192.168.0.29 > > ----------------- > [gc-infra:~]#nslookup > > set type=mx > > bettchen.steenbuck.net > Server: 192.168.0.29 > Address: 192.168.0.29#53 > > bettchen.steenbuck.net mail exchanger = 10 bettchen.steenbuck.net. > Here's another possible problem, the output should read: bettchen.steenbuck.net preference=10, mail exchanger = 10 bettchen.steenbuck.net (followed by some glue data) > ----------------- > > [gc-infra:~]#nslookup 192.168.0.29 > Server: 192.168.0.29 > Address: 192.168.0.29#53 > > 29.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = > bettchen.steenbuck.net.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. > name should be bettchen.steenbuck.net, not bettchen.steenbuck.net.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Post your zone files in bettchen as well as named.conf Ted
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