hi ,
my dns work properly... but could not send mail through sendmail...
following r the details ... i have not made any changes to sendmail.cf after installation....
[root@chetan ~]# nslookup chetan.abc.net
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Name: chetan.abc.net
Address: 192.168.0.1
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[root@chetan ~]# nslookup nikhil.abc.net
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Name: nikhil.abc.net
Address: 192.168.0.3
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# sendmail -v
root@nikhil.abc.net < send
root@nikhil.abc.net... Connecting to
127.0.0.1 via relay...
220 chetan.abc.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:32:51 +0530
>>> EHLO chetan.abc.net
250-chetan.abc.net Hello localhost
127.0.0.1 , pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<root@chetan.abc.net> SIZE=7 AUTH=root@chetan.abc.net
250 2.1.0 <root@chetan.abc.net>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root@nikhil.abc.net>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <root@nikhil.abc.net>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 j2I82pfA003809 Message accepted for delivery
root@nikhil.abc.net... Sent (j2I82pfA003809 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to
127.0.0.1
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 chetan.abc.net closing connection
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[root@chetan ~]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
j2I82pfA003809 7 Fri Mar 18 13:32 <root@chetan.abc.net>
(Deferred: Connection refused by nikhil.abc.net.)
<root@nikhil.abc.net>
Total requests: 1
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is this some problem with relaying........the domain name is abc.net
and hosts are chetan and nikhil.....
help of any kind will be highly appreciated .....
bye