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SENDMAIL - Deferred: Name Server: daddy: lookup failure
Annihilannic/Jose, I fixed it. Sendmail was trying to find an MX record for the name or address of the server I specified as the smarthost. To stop it doing that you can just put square brackets [] around the name or address when you enter it. Regards, Mike- thqt07
- Post #9
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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SENDMAIL - Deferred: Name Server: daddy: lookup failure
Annihilannic, Both systems use our local caching DNS proxy server, so both can 'NSLOOKUP' each other and can ping etc. The SMTP software itself uses a different, external DNS server for its MX lookups and wouldn't be able to find the names or addresses (because they are 172.16.x.x and...- thqt07
- Post #7
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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SENDMAIL - Deferred: Name Server: daddy: lookup failure
Jose, I am running RedHat 7.2 sendmail with a Win2000 SMTP smarthost and I get the same error. When I look at the mailq I see.. (Deferred: Name server: lobster: host name lookup failure) after just about everything in there. Like you I can resolve the smarthost name and ping it. I'm guessing...- thqt07
- Post #3
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
