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Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:21:36 -0800
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail

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Big clue -

[D:\]nslookup smtp.roadrunner.net
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Non-existent host/domain
*** Default servers are not available

[D:\]

192.168.1.1 is the D-Link router.

Sheridan

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <47A4277C.6030404@usa.net>, on 02/02/08
> at 12:18 AM, Sheridan George said:
>
> Hi,
>
>> The logs seem to indicate that sendmail is extracting the correct to:
>> from: address correctly. It just can't resolve the addresses.
>
> This would seem to be the case. I recommend you pick the address you want
> to use and let's get back to some iptrace testing.
>
> For the DNS lookups that fail, try a similar lookup from the command line.
> For example
>
> nslookup smtp.roadrunner.net
>
>> I check further on them
>> tomorrow. BTW, what is slamain.slainc.com.
>
> They are invented names which ensure that sendmail knowns that my network
> is not local to earthlink.net. Without this, there are cases where
> sendmail will try to do a local delivery, which will never work.
>
> Steven
>

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