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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:26:09 -0600
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail - makeconnection: cannot bind socket 
Message-ID:  <01a801c2bcc3$93ac6a70$11fd2fd8@ADMIN00>
References:  <20030114024848.M85658-100000@workhorse.imach.com>

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From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
> I've got a bizzare one.
>
> I'm running stock sendmail on a stock FreeBSD-STABLE box (just updated to
> try to solve this problem) and am getting some bizzare errors.
>
> Specifically, for certain recipients I am getting entries like:
>
> -----------------------
> relay# sendmail -v -qRmtha.org
>
> Running /var/spool/mqueue/h0E9KMnX000089 (sequence 1 of 108)
> <xxxxx@mtha.org>... Connecting to mail.mtha.org. via esmtp...
> makeconnection: cannot bind socket [209.181.34.149]: Can't assign
> requested address
> <xxxx@mtha.org>... Connecting to mail.mt.net. via esmtp...
> makeconnection: cannot bind socket [209.181.34.149]: Can't assign
> requested address
> <xxxx@mtha.org>... Deferred: Can't assign requested address
>
> Running /var/spool/mqueue/h0E9KMnV000089 (sequence 2 of 108)
> <xxxx@mtha.org>... Deferred: Can't assign requested address
> -------------------------
>
> This appears to only be related to certain destinations.
>
> 209.181.34.149 is *NOT* any of our IP addresses, is *NOT* related to the
> mtha domain, and is *NOT* listed anywhere in the mtha.org DNS or anywhere
> else I can find.
>
> Does anyone else have any ideas what is going on here?
>
Have you checked the /etc/hosts file?

I did find the error message in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/daemon.c.  The
problem seems to be a failure when calling the bind(2) function.

Scot


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