Is the server having any troubles with name resolution?
Shawn
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:54, Nick Wiltshire wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I figured I would refrain from hijacking the tank vs. station wagon thread
> _again_ ;) more people should drive tanks, they are harder to hijack.
>
> Anyways, a postfix server I am looking after has suddenly decided to stop
> delivering mail. In the logs I see:
>
> Apr 18 10:49:46 r2d2 postfix/virtual[32759]: fatal: gethostbyname("r2d2")
> does not resolve as a fully qualified domain name.
> Apr 18 10:49:47 r2d2 postfix/qmgr[32336]: warning: premature end-of-input
> on private/virtual socket while reading input attribute name
> Apr 18 10:49:47 r2dr2d2 ~ # 2 postfix/qmgr[32336]: warning: private/virtual
> socket: malformed response
> Apr 18 10:49:47 r2d2 postfix/qmgr[32336]: warning: transport virtual
> failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the
> problem description
> Apr 18 10:49:47 r2d2 postfix/master[32334]: warning:
> process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 32759 exit status 1
> Apr 18 10:49:47 r2d2 postfix/master[32334]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> The mail server was working fine for 2 months, seems odd to see this now.
> The root of the problem seems to be it can't get it's hostname -- but I
> have "myhostname" in main.cf set correctly to a FQDN that does resolve,
> which was the only thing I could find on Google.
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