On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote:
> I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS!
> Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP
> FAILURE.
I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few
times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs.
> I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times!
> The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
>
> I tried to apply the DNS patch
> The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
>
> I tried to change the router configuration:
> The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
>
> I installed latest bind:
> The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
>
> I installed RedHat:
> everything is working fine.
>
>
> Has someone got an idea about this?
> Has someone got the same problem?
I did have something similar. Does qmail start for you? Can it resolve
the MX for your domain? The problem I had was in the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the
HOST variable (specifically dnsfq). I changed those calls to specify the
domain name on my system and then it started working. Why it didn't work
before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work.
If you install from tarballs, you use the qmail script (not any
qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I
believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not
on my system), and things work fine.
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