Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:26:34 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: Dan Lazin <dan@alphamale.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail no longer relaying, now giving me 'Host unknown' error Message-ID: <37A82369.3DC4068C@prime.net.ua> References: <010001bede46$9e273840$ba9cb8a1@dan>
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It's difficult to say what is the problem. I recommend U to force sendmail on ur relay-server to just queue the mail. Then send mail from ur home (it will be queued). Then run sendmail -q -v -t to process queue and see what's going on. Or try to telnet from ur home/relay PC to geocities port 25 and walk through SMTP session and again see what's going on. U may send the results here to let guys analize them for U. I think ur sendmail's m4 macro file would be helpfull too. Dan Lazin wrote: > 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: <booty@hardcore.ab.ca>) > > ----- 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 -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office prime.net.ua's U have good chance to obtain system administrator virtual money ö%-) +380442448363 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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