From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 3 23:55:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edtnps05.telusplanet.net (edtnps05.telusplanet.net [198.161.157.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589BD1532B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@alphamale.ab.ca) Received: from edtn005266.hs.telusplanet.net ([161.184.156.186]:1426 "HELO dan") by smtp2.telusplanet.net with SMTP id <705440-1212>; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:55:43 -0600 Message-ID: <010001bede46$9e273840$ba9cb8a1@dan> From: "Dan Lazin" To: Subject: sendmail no longer relaying, now giving me 'Host unknown' error Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:57:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I added a domain to my sendmail.cw file yesterday, and SIGHUPed the daemon to restart it. As of that moment, it (my mail server) stopped relaying mail from my home machine. I have a dynamically-addressed ADSL connection at home, but my hostname always comes out matching *.hs.telusplanet.net. The relay-domains file simply reads "hs.telusplanet.net", and that worked before. I've tried just telusplanet.net, and that doesn't work, either. I just get the standard '550: Relaying denied' message. The sendmail documentation says that I'm doing everything correctly. And another bad thing has started happening: my aliases no longer work. I have an old geocities account for which I've created an alias for testing purposes; neither it, nor any other external alias, works anymore. He's the message I get: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- bootymasta@geocities.com (expanded from: ) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 bootymasta@geocities.com... Host unknown (Name server: mail2b.geo.yahoo.com.: host not found) (hardcore.ab.ca is a domain name pointing to my machine, and no, it's not porn) And yet nslookup says that mail2b.geo.yahoo.com exists. What gives? I'm not running named, though I was at one time. I've commented bind out of my host.conf file and removed it from rc.conf; are there any secret relics that would make sendmail query my nonexistant nameserver? I'm running the standard .cf file. Thanks very much. Dan Lazin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message