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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:58:13 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.maxbaud.net>
To:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Sendmail problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715125136.11635A-100000@bmccane.maxbaud.net>

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I have sendmail running on a Linux box for my mail server (don't ask 8(.
Anyway, we have had to change our upstream feed recently, and now when it
receives mail to certain groups (info, support, etc.) which I relay to my
real computer (FreeBSD), I get the following error.

bmccane@bmccane.maxbaud.net... Deferred: Name server:
bmccane.maxbaud.net.: hostname lookup failure

bmccane.maxbaud.net is my name server, and also the machine I am trying to
send the mail to.

When I do the following commands on either bmccane.maxbaud.net or
mail.maxbaud.net, I get the following output.

host bmccane.maxbaud.net bmccane.maxbaud.net:
	Using domain server:
	Name: bmccane.maxbaud.net
	Address: 12.13.66.226
	Aliases:

	bmccane.maxbaud.net has address 12.13.66.226

host mail.maxbaud.net bmccane.maxbaud.net:
	Using domain server:
	Name: bmccane.maxbaud.net
	Address: 12.13.66.226
	Aliases:

	mail.maxbaud.net has address 12.13.66.238

host 12.13.66.238 bmccane.maxbaud.net:
	Using domain server:
	Name: bmccane.maxbaud.net
	Address: 12.13.66.226
	Aliases:

	Name: mail.maxbaud.net
	Address: 12.13.66.238
	Aliases:

My mail is starting to backup quite a bit in my mailq.  Any ideas what is
causing the lookup failure?


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