I forgot to say that mail between espersunited.com users works fine. As I said, I've had this problem for a few days and I previously thought that the messages simply weren't being sent from the message queue. Incoming mail to espersunited.com works fine too...
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last Wednesday CableOne (my ISP (unfortunately)) > suffered a violent thunderstorm at their > headquarters > in Arizona. All CableOne internet customers were > without Internet for about six hours. Ever since > the > internet became available again my mail server has > not > been able to send mail from espersunited.com to > yahoo.com, gmail.com and possibly more. My mail > server attempts to deliver the outgoing email, but > returns the mail to the user who sent it with an > error > message. The interesting thing is that I can ping > the > address of the recipient mail servers at Yahoo and > Gmail, but I cannot telnet to their port 25. I > don't > know if this is my problem or theirs, and if it is > theirs I don't know how to notify them of it. > CableOne assigns all addresses (including their DNS > servers) through DHCP. Is there a way to query my > router for DNS information and use that instead of > the > two hard-coded IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf? > Here > is the /etc/resolv.conf file on my server box: > > domain espersunited.com > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > nameserver 24.116.0.160 > nameserver 24.116.0.202 > > > The 192.168.1.1 is the address of my router. I > don't > know if the other two addresses are still valid. I > know that the Gentoo LiveCD has some way of finding > what these IP addresses should be, but I don't know > how it does it. Can anyone help me with this? Also > any insight into my outgoing mail problem would be > greatly appreciated... > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
