On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Saidi; Marwan wrote:
> I have a situation which may be off-topic, and if so, I apologize. We have
> been beating heads on walls for some time now with this one....
>
> We have a Windows NT network, on which we have a RedHat 6.2 box named
> woodstock in the domain ced-concord.com to host our intranet. Everything
> seemed to be working fine, until a simple form mailer stopped working. The
> form still works and generates the mail, but the mail gets deferred. I am
> getting a message "host name lookup failure" on each piece of mail generated
> by the form. Additionally, if I try to use the KDE mail client, I get the
> same problem. (Mail is queued, but never delivered). It gets interesting
> here.... If I use PINE and specify mail.ced-concord.com as the smtp server,
> mail goes through with no problem, yet I still get the host name lookup
> failure message. My question is this: can anyone point me in the correct
> direction? I have looked extensively at all of the setups for networking and
> sendmail, and I am at the end of my limited knowledge. I have included a
> couple of entries from maillog to illustrate. Any and all help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
Check that the nameservers specified in /etc/resolv.conf are
correct. Also make sure you didn't block access the the name servers with
your firewall setup. Third check - if you are running a local name
server, and pointing to it, make sure it is still running!
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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