Re: More sendmail help?

From: William John Murray (w.murray_at_rl.ac.uk)
Date: 03/08/05

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    > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:47 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
    > > My reply seems not to have been posted, so to restate:
    > > I have an ADSL dialup with AOL, and sendmail fails.
    > >
    > > > Mar 6 22:11:34 base sendmail[13523]: j26KMbkD012891:
    > > > to=<w.murray@rl.ac.uk>, ctladdr=<root@MY-HOME-DOMAIN> (0/0),
    > > > delay=01:48:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=802987,
    > > > relay=XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
    > > > XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk.: host name lookup failure
    > > >
    > > >
    > > Thanks for the help. I've followed a couple of suggestions:
    > >
    > > *) Forget ssl, use my ISP's SMTP server. This is smtp.aol.com
    > > The result is identical, with my work IP changed to smtp.aol.com
    > > At least it proves ssl wasn't the problem!
    > >
    > > *) Try "MASQUERADE_DOMAIN"
    > > I try many combinations, (aol.com), (ipt.aol.com), and I get one
    of:
    > > dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
    > > or
    > > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: smtp.aol.com: host name
    lookup
    > > failure
    >
    > Your local nameserver seems to be unable to resolve the name
    > "smtp.aol.com". I certainly can from here. Do you have working DNS?
    >
    > What do you get for:
    > $ dig smtp.aol.com +trace
    > (dig is in the bind-utils package)
    >

    Hi Paul,
        I THOUGHT this message meant smtp.aol.com was failing to look me up?
    It seems to ,e DNS is OK for me, but I am no expert. I get the following
    from dig:

    ; <<>> DiG 9.2.5rc1 <<>> smtp.aol.com +trace
    ;; global options: printcmd
    . 1890 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
    . 1890 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
    ;; Received 356 bytes from 205.188.146.145#53(205.188.146.145) in 97 ms

    com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
    ;; Received 502 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(b.root-servers.net) in 228
    ms

    aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-01.ns.aol.com.
    aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-02.ns.aol.com.
    aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-06.ns.aol.com.
    aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-07.ns.aol.com.
    ;; Received 181 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 303 ms

    smtp.aol.com. 3600 IN CNAME smtp.cs.com.
    . 99999999 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    . 99999999 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
    ;; Received 263 bytes from 152.163.159.232#53(dns-01.ns.aol.com) in 93
    ms

    Is this OK?
     Bill 

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