From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 17:45:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12441 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12435 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26225; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:45:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Dan Welch cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail coming in, not going out In-Reply-To: <970301203513.29c0acfc@wofford.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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."