Still more sendmail help!

William John Murray w.murray at rl.ac.uk
Tue Mar 8 22:32:10 UTC 2005


 Hello again,
         I seem unable to reply to this list.. I reply to the digest,
edit the subject to "Re: whatever" and it goes into a black hole.
Anyway...

> 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 at rl.ac.uk>, ctladdr=<root at 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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