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Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:51:13 -0800
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail

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This whole discussion is way over my head, BUT my SMTP server is:

smtp-server.san.rr.com

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <20080201141410-6096-10@scoug.com>, on 02/01/08
> at 02:14 PM, "Robert Blair" said:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I am not a sendmail expert and have not looked at very many sendmail
>> debug files. What I see here seems to be a DNS lookup problem. It may
>> be that the DNS response is too long and sendmail times out before it
>> arrives. I have included a few lines from your debug file below.
>
> I agree. Some of the lookup errors are expected. They are the result of
> attempts to translate names like fasteagle to and ip address. What is not
> clear is why the lookup for smtp.roadrunner.com is failing.
>
> One thing I do notice is that
>
> dnslookup -type=mx smtp.roadrunner.com
>
> and
>
> dnslookup -type=mx roadrunner.com
>
> produce different results and the later looks more correct. That said
>
> telnet -p 25 smtp.roadrunner.com
>
> gets me to the mail server.
>
>>> --parseaddr(listsns@roadrunner.com)
>>> map_lookup(host, roadrunner.com) => host_map_lookup(roadrunner.com) => FAIL (2)
>
>> I don't know what the FAIL(2) means but I do not get those errors.
>
> I think the is the result of looking for builting mapping tables, which
> probably don't exist. Error 2 would be file not found.
>
>>> remotename => `s-geo@usa.net'
>>> getmxrr: res_search(mail.adelphia.net) failed (sock_errno=10060, h_errno=2)
>
> This is the expect error given what is happening.
>
> #define SOCETIMEDOUT (SOCBASEERR+60) /* Operation
> timed out */
>
> You can find these in nerror.h in your programming toolkit.
>
>> The "sock_errno=10060, h_errno=2" seems to me to be a DNS request that
>> failed.
>
> It could be. The error is generic. It occurs anytime the socket open
> times out.
>
>
> Steven
>

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Tom Brown, Catherder
thomabrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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