I just tried pinging two outside sites.  No problem.  Besides,
why would it need this if it is just serving pages?
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> It looks like DNS is down for the box.
>
> Outside world can resolve it, but it can't resolve the rest of the
> world.
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Allen Brown wrote:
>
>> My usual web server is dying so I replaced it temporarily
>> with my netbook.  I brought up apache and after fixing some
>> permissions all was well.
>>
>> Or so I thought.  Something is not happy.  And I don't know
>> what.  My log files are now filling up with messages of
>> failed email.  Each of the files /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info
>> /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/syslog are getting
>> the same messages
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Nov 19 12:03:53 kookaburra nullmailer[16654]: smtp: Failed: Connect
>> failed
>> Nov 19 12:03:53 kookaburra nullmailer[2700]: Sending failed:  Host
>> not found
>> Nov 19 12:03:53 kookaburra nullmailer[2700]: Starting delivery:
>> protocol: smtp host: mail. file: 1247884562.9714
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I'm not finding these messages very helpful in knowing
>> what the problem is.  In order to stop the log files from filling
>> up / I've stopped nullmailer.  But I would prefer to know
>> what it was complaining about.
>> --
>> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org
>> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
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