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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 02:15:31 -0700
From:      "Sean Knox" <wintermage@home.com>
To:        "Kelsey Cummings" <kgc@sonic.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users
Message-ID:  <000f01c0e8e9$1358e1f0$0201a8c0@sean>
References:  <3B14F2B1.19722.2D8B0A9@localhost> <3B14858A.A63BF391@iowna.com> <OE4eKzGZuNY1SWoBDys00008ad5@hotmail.com> <01053003334505.20931@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <20010530004247.D78954@wingerboy.sonic.net>

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Reverse DNS is in place for the 10 subnet. The interface 10.10.209.143
stated by gethostbyaddr is not being used, and I have not put it in DNS yet.
Shutting off the interface prevents that message from displaying.
- Sean


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelsey Cummings" <kgc@sonic.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users


>
> This sounds more like a DNS issue to me.  Do you have reverse DNS in place
> for the 10/net?  If not, the easy fix is to add the address to /etc/hosts
> and forget about it.
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:33:45AM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
> > I suppose you have checked /etc/mail/local-host-names and put in the
IP's for
> > which you expect the system to get mail for and also in
> > /etc/mai/relay-domains the same thing. gethostbyaddress is telling you
"hey,
> > i don't know such a place"
> >
> > --Lanny
> > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 01:36, Sean Knox wrote:
> > > How long should I wait? I let it sit there for about 6-7 minutes and
it was
> > > still hung.
> > >
> > > When I do this, the sendmail log shows the following:
> > >
> > > May 29 22:35:04 freebsd-1 sendmail[928]: gethostbyaddr(10.10.209.143)
> > > failed: 1
> > >
> > > and nothing more. I have other users still continuing to send email
via
> > > sendmail however; those messages continue to appear while waiting for
> > > 'sendmail -v username@domain.net' to do something.
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@iowna.com>
> > > To: "Sean Knox" <wintermage@home.com>
> > > Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" <Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my>;
> > > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users
> > >
> > > > Sean Knox wrote:
> > > > > Sendmail just hangs there when I do a sendmail -v
username@domain.net
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > It's probably not hung. Wait until the timeouts expire and see what
it
> > > > complains about.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > If a bird in the hand
> > > > is worth two in the bush,
> > > > then what can I get for
> > > > two hands in the bush?
> > >
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