Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
[I didn't realise Joe's question was Cc'd to the list. I replied privately days ago.] On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:28:43PM +, Joe Kraft wrote: have you found out any more about why it's not working? I'm also curious about the entry in mailertable because my feeble attempt didn't work.

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Niy wrote: Just a quick thought, I had a similar problem on my LAN. I set up /etc/hosts files, and that did the trick for me. This was one of the first things I tried. It didn't work in the particular situation I described. -- Paul. w

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi, Firstly, thanks for the comprehensive reply. On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:06:32AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: It could be that the MS Windows DNS server, which is derived from/patterned after named or however you want to call it, suffers from a similar defect. Being not familiar with the MS

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread Joe Kraft
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I am told it's running Windows 2000 DNS Server. Presumably that's Microsoft's own DNS implementation built into Windows 2000. (By 'sometimes' I don't mean it's non-deterministic. Every time sendmail asks for

RE: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread Niy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kraft Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread J65nko BSD
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:09:08 +1030, Paul A. Hoadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I have actually solved the problem. I intend to post a summary for the archive when I return to the site later in the week, at which time I'll be

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-20 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Chuck, On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:57:58PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: That hostname gets an NXDOMAIN failure from here: Sorry, I should have been more explicit in the original: the nameserver in question is serving a private LAN in the 192.168 space. I have actually solved the problem. I

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: [ ... ] Dec 16 11:19:08 bert sendmail[1043]: iBF403Wb004664: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1001/1001), delay=20:49:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=4770661, relay=tsb.coremedicalsolutions.com., dsn=4.0.0,

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-18 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:32:58AM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I have a series of mails in the queue, failing on delivery attempts like this: Dec 16 11:19:08 bert sendmail[1043]: iBF403Wb004664: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Robert Huff
Paul A. Hoadley writes: There are numerous hits from Google on very similar issues, but almost all the solutions point at DNS problems. If there is a local DNS issue, I can't find it. Because it may not be what you think. Yesterday, I upgraded my -CURRENT system from

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Robert, On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:27:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I was totally confused ... until I did ps -ax | grep named and found an unrequested -t /var/named at the end of the command line. So what's that about? -t causes named to run chrooted, per entry 20040928. That's not

Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I have just upgraded a machine from 5.2.1 to 5.3, and I think I _may_ have stomped on something in /etc/mail during mergemaster. The symptom is this: mail to other machines on the LAN worked yesterday, and is broken after the upgrade. Mail to the wider Internet continues to work. I have

Re: Sendmail/'host name lookup failure'

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day I rebooted my FreeBSD machine. Ever since then, messages to hotmail.com and yahoogroups.com are not going through - the mail logs report that there is a 'host name lookup failure' to the specific MX hosts (eg 'mx1.hotmail.com'). The thing

Sendmail/'host name lookup failure'

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... The other day I rebooted my FreeBSD machine. Ever since then, messages to hotmail.com and yahoogroups.com are not going through - the mail logs report that there is a 'host name lookup failure' to the specific MX hosts (eg 'mx1.hotmail.com'). The thing is though, I can run