Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> Cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail coming in, not going out Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970301174443.26215A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <970301203513.29c0acfc@wofford.edu>
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On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Dan Welch wrote: > Machines on which I install FBSD 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 from the distribution > cdrom's are unable to send mail to other machines on the local > network. > > The failure mode is that the outgoing messages are queued with this > error message in them: > > MDeferred: Name server: gp.dept.net.: host name lookup failure > > The network is isolated, contains FreeBSD machines only, does not > run DNS, and has all addresses in /etc/hosts on every machine. > Incoming mail works fine, as do rlogin, telnet, and ftp. My sendmail > m4 configuration file specifies FEATURE(nodns) and the order in > /etc/host.conf is hosts then bind. > > I use versions of FreeBSD earlier than 2.1.5 (each using its > accompanying sendmail version) without difficulty; mail works well > in both directions. > > Help? I don't understand this new problem at all. > Take a look at your /etc/host.conf. Make sure "hosts" comes before "bind". I bet you fifty cents that fixes it. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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