I was getting this error with my RedHat installation but it turned out that my MX
entries were incorrect. ie. I forgot the dot.
ie. My MX entries were:
mydomain.com IN MX server1.mydomain.com.
instead of:
mydomain.com. IN MX .....
Maybe your DNS had died ? or become corrupted ?
On Monday, May 31, 1999 9:43 AM, Andrzej Szydlo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running mail-1.03 on FreeBSD-3.2-STABLE, compiled from ports.
> It fails to deliver messages to remote hosts. The log says:
>
> May 31 11:29:40 hp qmail: 928142980.850128 new msg 6503
> May 31 11:29:40 hp qmail: 928142980.852225 info msg 6503: bytes 196 from
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 24242 uid 82
> May 31 11:29:40 hp qmail: 928142980.966943 starting delivery 5: msg 6503 to
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> May 31 11:29:40 hp qmail: 928142980.969027 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> May 31 11:29:41 hp qmail: 928142981.245645 delivery 5: failure:
> Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_?????????._(#5.1.2)/
>
> The host to which MX points does exist. It receives messages from other
> systems except for this particular one. nslookup on the qmail box
> finds it. Why qmail cannot find the host?
>
> Same configuration worked for me on FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE, before I upgraded
> to 3.2-STABLE.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Andrzej
