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sendmail hostlookup?

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May 13 09:05:40 atrivo sendmail[31695]: h4DG55I31674: to=zac@zac-holley.net, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:35, xdelay=00:00:18, mailer=esmtp, pri=30052, relay=zac-holley.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: zac-holley.net.: host name lookup failure

May 13 09:05:42 atrivo sendmail[31678]: h4DG56t31678: from=root, size=52, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200305131605.h4DG56t31678@atrivo.wofut.com>, relay=root@localhost

May 13 09:05:53 atrivo sendmail[31700]: h4DG56t31678: to=zac@zac-holley.net, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:47, xdelay=00:00:11, mailer=esmtp, pri=30052, relay=zac-holley.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: zac-holley.net.: host name lookup failure



bash-2.05a# host zac-holley.net

zac-holley.net has address 66.227.26.1

bash-2.05a#

why is'nt it letting me email? somtimes it does somtimes it does'nt

my dns mx record is as follows

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$TTL 5m

@ IN SOA 64.237.40.10. 64.237.40.20. (

        2003042706; serial

 1h    ; refresh (1h)

 30m    ; retry (30M)

 1w    ; expiry (1W)

 30m    ; minimum (16H)

)



                        NS      64.237.40.10.

                        NS      64.237.40.20.

                        MX 10  zac-holley.net.



                        IN A    66.227.26.1

zac-holley.net.        IN A    66.227.26.1

mail.zac-holley.net.        IN A    66.227.26.1

webmail.zac-holley.net.        IN A    66.227.26.1

www.zac-holley.net.    IN CNAME        zac-holley.net.

mail.zac-holley.net.    IN MX 10        zac-holley.net.

wierd very wierd somtimes mail is being sent somtimes its not any ideas at all?

Do you have your /etc/hosts file set correctly? Did you add that dns entry along with the IP:

zac-holley.net 66.227.26.1

Plus, that IP ends with a 1 (x.x.x.1). That's "usually" reserved for servers that the ISP owns...unless of course you're the ISP ;) At least what I've seen anyways...

Quote:

Originally posted by nuzzy
Do you have your /etc/hosts file set correctly? Did you add that dns entry along with the IP:

zac-holley.net 66.227.26.1

Plus, that IP ends with a 1 (x.x.x.1). That's "usually" reserved for servers that the ISP owns...unless of course you're the ISP ;) At least what I've seen anyways...

yes thats my ip, its for my server.

Code:

May 13 13:04:59 atrivo sendmail[4851]: h4DK4Wk04848: to=zac@zac-holley.net, ctladdr=zac (504/504), delay=00:00:27, xdelay=00:00:20, mailer=esmtp, pri=30049, relay=zac-holley.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: zac-holley.net.: host name lookup failure

May 13 13:33:55 atrivo sendmail[5748]: h4DK4Wk04848: to=zac@zac-holley.net, ctladdr=zac (504/504), delay=00:29:23, xdelay=00:01:16, mailer=esmtp, pri=120049, relay=zac-holley.net. [66.227.26.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (ok 1052953025 qp 7295)

see the email usually end up sending but after it fails and like 30 minutes later.

any idea how to fix this?

argh

hmm...could possibly be a reverse lookup problem