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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2006 22:50:28 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: :::. Sendmail on FreeBSD -> Deferred: Operation timed out with <server>
Message-ID:  <20060519195028.GA97139@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <446E16C2.4050908@webanoide.org>
References:  <446DF046.2060401@webanoide.org> <20060519182628.GA96467@gothmog.pc> <446E16C2.4050908@webanoide.org>

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On 2006-05-20 05:04, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> For some reason, your Sendmail setup tries to find out the IP
>> address of the MX for `hospitaldeninos.cl' and it resolves
>> this to the wrong mail server:
>>
>>     mail.hospitaldeninos.cl
>>
>> This would tend to work fine, as long as either one of the two
>> MX hosts of the domain accepted email, but there are also
>> problems connecting to the `mail.hospitaldeninos.cl:SMTP'
>> service too.
>>
>> What do the following files contain in the FreeBSD system that
>> fails to resolve the MX records correctly?
>>
>> 	/etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf
>> 	/etc/host.conf
>> 	/etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> Thanks for quick response. These are the files:
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.tas.webanoide.org localhost
> 192.168.0.2 kavayito.tas.webanoide.org kavayito
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
> search tas.webanoide.org
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
>
> /etc/host.conf
> hosts
> bind
>
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts: files dns

I see.  Does the nameserver at 192.168.0.1 reply with correct
data for the `hospitaldeninos.cl' domain?  It seems that your
Sendmail gets `mail.hospitaldeninos.cl' as the primary MX for
that domain from somewhere, but it isn't obvious from these files
where the wrong reply comes from.




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