Actually you definitely have a DNS problem. Set up your DNS as well it is
not true that sendmail does not use the hosts table it does. Check
/etc/hosts.conf and make sure it says
order hosts,bind
i.e check the hosts table first then use bind name server.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mikkel
L. Ellertson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:06:35 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Saidi; Marwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: More problems with mail (newbie level)
>
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Saidi; Marwan wrote:
>
> > Ok, first I must thank everyone who has tried to help me with my problems. I
> > will paraphrase....
> >
> > We have an NT domain, using Exchange for our corporate mail server. We also
> > have a RedHat 6.2 box for our internal web server. On our intranet, we have
> > a form that uses FormMail to generate a simple email. When any user fills
> > out said form, the resulting email sits in the Queue, with the message
> > "Deferred: ced-concord.com:hostname lookup failure". Any attempt to use mail
> > clients on the webserver results in the same situation. However, if mail is
> > sent with Pine, specifically pointing to mail.ced-concord.com as the SMTP
> > server (in pine setup) it reaches it's destination. My question is this: 1)
> > how can I setup sendmail to use mail.ced-concord.com as the smtp server of
> > choice? 2)is there something in the configuration that is causing the
> > problem? I have included /etc/resolv.conf to shed light on the DNS issues. I
> > am not running a DNS server on the Linux box.
> >
> > [root@woodstock /etc]# cat resolv.conf
> > nameserver 192.168.0.1
> > domain ced-concord.com
> >
> > Unfortunately, my experience level is not that high, but I know more than
> > anyone else, so I am the Linux guy. Besides, we don't want anyone running M$
> > webservers, right? Apologies in advance if this is too simple, and thanks in
> > advance for any help.
> >
> >
> > Marwan Saidi
> > Desktop Analyst
> > CED - Concord Information Services
> > 1551 Sandspur Rd.
> > Maitland, FL 32751
> > 407.741.8645
> > 407.551.2372 (fax)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> Are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1? Does the web server know
> how to send a message to 192.168.0.1? (Or is 192.168.0.1 the IP of the
> web server?)
>
> Also, if you are running a name server on 192.168.0.1, does it know the IP
> address of ced-concord.com? From the error message, you do have a DNS
> problem. Remember, sendmail does not use /etc/hosts, but I think Pine
> will.
>
> Mikkel
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