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On 14 Feb 2001 10:27:52 +0000, Tim Haynes <piglet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> wrote:
>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.

smtp.freeserve.net is an smtp server, I would imagine.

If it was a nameserver, it would be given as an IP address, not a DNS
name, I imagine.

>> 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? 

At the time, there were 2 messages in it.

>If you're on Freeserve as it would
>appear, you're using dynamic IP#s too, yeah? 

That's how it's set up in kppp, yes.

(I'm using SuSE6.4, BTW).

>How's about restarting bind

How would I do that?

>and sendmail and kicking off a `sendmail -q'[i]?

I normally manually execute ``sendmail -q -v'' to post emails; that's
what I did above.

>(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..?)

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