Need help debugging either a network or a sendmail problem.

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:56, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have a weird problem.
> 
> 526 > hostname
> saturn.syslang.net
> 527 >
> 
> But, ...
> 
> 527> perl -MNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"'
> saturn.com
> 
> And it takes almost 30 seconds to come back. (The above example is what I 
> did to reduce the bigger problem which caused me to notice this to the 
> smallest case.)

Look at /etc/resolv.conf.  Is the first nameserver mentioned
there working?  (Try 'dig @ip_number domain_to_look_up' to
test it).

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  Les Mikesell
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