On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:41:45PM +0530, GLC wrote:
>
> The problem
> Sendmail when it trys to send a mail on the internet, it reports
> gethostbyaddress(203.197.135.75) failed 1. When I looked up the ip
> address using nslookup, I get an error hostname lookup failed. I know
> that the above ip address assigned by my isp is a fake one.
This is a mistake on part of your ISP, which should consider configuring
correctly their name servers to do reverse lookups properly. Sendmail
is rather unforgiving for errors in DNS setup, but you can always add:
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
in your master-config file, and regenerate your sendmail.cf from it.
This, according to src/sendmail/cf/README will do the following:
<quote>
accept_unresolvable_domains
Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session
will be refused if the host part of the argument to
MAIL FROM: cannot be located in the host name service
(e.g., DNS). If you are inside a firewall that has only
a limited view of the Internet host name space, this
could cause problems. In this case you probably want to
use this feature to accept all domains on input, even if
they are unresolvable.
</quote>
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