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Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:59:30 -0800
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@roadrunner.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail

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And in my Mail and Newsgroup Settings, I see
"smtp-server.roadrunner.com". (I'm in Fullerton, and part of the
customer base that Time-Warner took over from Adelphia.)
Colin

Tom Brown wrote:
> 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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