another DNS problem

Hiisi saippua5 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 22:06:23 UTC 2010


ma, 2010-11-01 kello 01:54 +1030, Tim kirjoitti:
> Well, the error message said "temporary" failure, with a "deferred"
> status of the queue.  Once the problem goes away, it can retry.  Or may
> just keep retrying, anyway.
> 
> The obvious question occurs:  Had you restarted the mailserver during
> these tests?  You usually have to restart servers when you make
> configuration changes, and sometimes when networks go up and down.

Of course I did. And after changing to sendmail.mc I did make in mail
directory before restarting the service.
> 
> I still don't get an answer if I try a reverse lookup on the IP.
> Perhaps other servers can do it (i.e. the record's there, but hasn't
> appeared in the servers that I'm querying).
> 

The strange thing is that me too can't get an answer to reverse name
resolution.
Anyway, while it works I'll apply that old good method: if it works
don't fix it!
Thanks again.
-- 
Well thaaaaaaat's okay.



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