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raj@rijhwani.org (Raj Rijhwani) writes:

> In article <slrn98jr2s.62r.philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk>
>            philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk "phil hunt" writes:
> 
> > When attempting to post email to freeserve, I often get an error message
> > from sendmail:
> 
> >   Running BAA06205 (sequence 1 of 2)
> >   <lgrinzo@stny.rr.com>... Deferred: 
> >   Name server: smtp.freeserve.net: host name lookup failure
> 
> It's unable to look up the name "stny.rr.com". The odd thing is the
> reference to smtp.freeserve.net as the name server.

*Hmm*. I'm not convinced you're reading the last line of the message right,
there. To me, based on other sendmail logs here, it looks more like
"whatever my nameserver is, it can't lookup smtp.freeserve.net", not that
it's using smtp.f.n *as* a nameserver.

> > Note that i can still ping smtp.freeserve.net:
> 
> >   philh:~/ftpin> ping smtp.freeserve.net
> >   PING relay.pol.net.uk (195.92.195.153): 56 data bytes
[snip]
> >   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=6 ttl=248 time=1220.277 ms
> >   --- relay.pol.net.uk ping statistics ---
> >   8 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 12% packet loss
> >   round-trip min/avg/max = 631.747/1138.594/1951.710 ms    
> 
> That's damned slow ping! But I'm guessing that something else is taking
> place over the link at the same time. That, too, could interfere with
> name resolution.

True, indeed, it is.

Phil: how big's the `mailq` on that box? If you're on Freeserve as it would
appear, you're using dynamic IP#s too, yeah? How's about restarting bind
and sendmail and kicking off a `sendmail -q'[i]?

(Me, I have my Suspicions about kernels and dynamic IP#s and interfaces
being given new IP#s or even just having the existing one re-established
and whole processes behind a masquerading gateway never being able to send
a packet... I'm sure there's a problem lurking, I don't trust bind & squid
not to hang eternally behind a *Demon* dialup with `noipdefault' enabled.
Mwaaaa, anyone..?)

~Tim

Footnotes: 
[i]  I still miss `runq', when it's sendmail that's installed; older
sendmails had it and exim still has it, too. Nice command.

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