On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Saidi; Marwan wrote:
> Ok, first I must thank everyone who has tried to help me with my problems. I
> will paraphrase....
>
> We have an NT domain, using Exchange for our corporate mail server. We also
> have a RedHat 6.2 box for our internal web server. On our intranet, we have
> a form that uses FormMail to generate a simple email. When any user fills
> out said form, the resulting email sits in the Queue, with the message
> "Deferred: ced-concord.com:hostname lookup failure". Any attempt to use mail
> clients on the webserver results in the same situation. However, if mail is
> sent with Pine, specifically pointing to mail.ced-concord.com as the SMTP
> server (in pine setup) it reaches it's destination. My question is this: 1)
> how can I setup sendmail to use mail.ced-concord.com as the smtp server of
> choice? 2)is there something in the configuration that is causing the
> problem? I have included /etc/resolv.conf to shed light on the DNS issues. I
> am not running a DNS server on the Linux box.
>
> [root@woodstock /etc]# cat resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> domain ced-concord.com
>
> Unfortunately, my experience level is not that high, but I know more than
> anyone else, so I am the Linux guy. Besides, we don't want anyone running M$
> webservers, right? Apologies in advance if this is too simple, and thanks in
> advance for any help.
>
>
> Marwan Saidi
> Desktop Analyst
> CED - Concord Information Services
> 1551 Sandspur Rd.
> Maitland, FL 32751
> 407.741.8645
> 407.551.2372 (fax)
> msaidi@ced-concord.com
>
Are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1? Does the web server know
how to send a message to 192.168.0.1? (Or is 192.168.0.1 the IP of the
web server?)
Also, if you are running a name server on 192.168.0.1, does it know the IP
address of ced-concord.com? From the error message, you do have a DNS
problem. Remember, sendmail does not use /etc/hosts, but I think Pine
will.
Mikkel
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