hi,
My maillog contains lots of lines like these 3 lines.
Mar 9 00:21:39 maildomain ./popper[26161]: (v3.1.2)
Unable to get canonical nam
e of client 169.165.0.196: Unknown host (1)
Mar 9 00:22:35 maildomain ./popper[26162]: (v3.1.2)
Unable to get canonical nam
e of client 169.165.0.226: Unknown host (1)
Mar 9 00:23:53 maildomain ./popper[26163]: (v3.1.2)
Unable to get canonical nam
e of client 169.165.0.237: Unknown host (1)
169.165.0.*** are my local ip addresses and
maildomain.net is the hostname of the mail server.
my /etc/hosts is like this:
169.165.0.236 maildomain.net nucleus
nucleussoftware maildomain
whats happening?
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GuruPrasanna Subbarayan rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > i have sendmail running. i'm able to telnet to
> > localhost port 25. what else could be wrong?
>
> It is timing out for some reason - perhaps dns etc?
> Take a look at
> /var/log/maillog and see
>
> -s
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot>
> org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix
> Sysadmin
>
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