On Friday 24 January 2003 10:35 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I am running into ridiculous problems with postfix that I do not > understand. I have a valid fully qualified hostname > (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I have DNS setup (right now by kppp with > entries for my proper DNS's in my resolv.conf file. > > If I ping yahoo.com, no problem, it pings as expected. If I send an email > to myself at yahoo.com via my local postfix, however, I get a messages > thus: > > Jan 24 17:29:20 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3701]: 95785402248: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=1565, status=deferred (Name > service error for yahoo.com: Host not found, try again) > > What?! Is postfix retarded? Why is it not able to use the DNS like every > other net app on my system? Why can't it "find" yahoo.com? I have also > run into this with a few other email addresses that DO exist yet postfix > refuses to send because the hostname couldn't be found. > > What does it take for postfix to accept DNS reality? I am not sure that > this message will get out either but on the off-chance that it does...Help > please? > > I have a number of other problems I need to work out via other mailing > lists and this inability to mail extant domains is killing me. > > praedor praedor, I can't get to your website, message from browser below.
An error occured while loading http://stonekeep.ravenhome.net: Could not connect to host stonekeep.ravenhome.net Maybe that's the problem.. I can ping the address and get a return, though. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936
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