Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:26:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuing sendmail on 4.x Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000727210934.20592A-100000@utah> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000727221848.00b2b550@mail.utexas.edu>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: Look closely. I highly doubt that a host 206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu exists on the schools network. > stat=Deferred: Name server: 206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu.: host name > lookup failure My guess is a DNS problem. You see that the ip has an appended domain name. If your MX record in DNS does not have a period as the last character then the domain name is automatically appended to the host name. I am also guessing that your MX record points to 206.77.96.8 instead of lxmailhost. DNS and sendmail are joined at the hip. If you ever see a host lookup error in your logs, make sure DNS is set correctly. Mail has to always look for your MX in order for it to get to its proper place. Your hosts file is inconsequential. I am going to guess that your MX record reads like: IN MX 0 206.77.96.8 With no dot at the end. This is wrong. But should read like IN MX 0 lxmailhost.taylor.isd.tenet.edu. Note the dote at the end!! Of course, my guesses may be way off base. But I doubt it. I have done exactly this before myself! :) Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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