Re: smtp and mmdf

From: Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) (rtr_at_rsquared.com)
Date: 06/05/03


Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 02:12:05 GMT
To: scomsc@xenitec.on.ca

At 6/4/2003 05:43 PM, Jean-Pierre Radley reminisced:
>Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) typed (on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at
>08:11:53PM +0000):
>| At 6/4/2003 10:17 AM, Jean-Pierre Radley reminisced:
>| >Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) typed (on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at
>| >12:56:18PM +0000):
>
>| >| I am trying to send mail to an outside address (a different domain
>| >| name) and failing miserably. The system is OSR 5.0.2 running mmdf.
>| >| I can telnet to the address rsquared.com but when I send mail to
>| >| rtr@rsquared.com the domain name is not resolved.
>| >|
>| >| (BHST) Unknown host/domain name in "rtr@rsquared.com" Submit
>| >| error: No valid addresses
>| >|
>| >| I have rsquared.com in the hosts file. I have the same problem
>| >| trying to send to a mail server within the same domain, I can
>| >| telnet to the mail server but unable to send mail to the mail
>| >| server. I believe my problem lies with DNS, that the server is
>| >| not performing DNS with an external DNS server. If I try to
>| >| telnet to a remote host, one that is not in hosts, I receive the
>| >| error message 'alexandria.k12.nj.us: Host name lookup failure'.
>| >| I thought I had the DNS servers listed but I must be missing
>| >| something. Can someone point me in the right direction to first
>| >| resolve the DNS problem and at that point I hope the mail problem
>| >| with also be solved. What entries must be made, and where, to get
>| >| DNS to work properly.
>| >|
>| >| From chan.log when I try to send to rtr@server.pburg.k12.nj.us (this mail
>| >| server is in house and I have an entry in hosts)
>| >
>| >What is your /etc/hosts file?
>| >
>| >What is the output of netstat -rn?
>| >
>| >Can you ping jpradley.jpr.com?
>|
>| /etc #less resolv.conf
>| nameserver=172.20.18.203
>| nameserver=151.198.0.68
>| nameserver=199.45.45.14
>| hostresorder local bind
>| search pburg.k12.nj.us
>
>Uh, take out those '=' signs and replace them by whitespace. :-)
>
>| /etc/hosts
>| 127.0.0.1 localhost
>| 172.20.20.36 Phillipsburg High School
>| 209.158.163.22 rsquared.com
>| 209.158.163.51 warrennet.org
>| 172.20.18.172 pburg.k12.nj.us
>| 172.20.18.172 server.pburg.k12.nj.us
>|
>| /etc #netstat -rn
>| Routing tables
>| Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
>| default 172.20.20.1 UGS 8 19206 net0
>| 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 364 lo0
>| 172.20.20 172.20.20.36 UC 1 0 net0
>| 172.20.20.36 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 lo0
>| 224 172.20.20.36 UCS 0 0 net0
>|
>| ping jpradley.jpr.com
>| ping: unknown host jpradley.jpr.com
>
>--
>JP

= signs replaced with whitespace, still not working. Is there a daemon I
need to stop and start for mmdf to notice the whitespace?
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