Joshua Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 01:34 PM 8/22/2001 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> >Joshua Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm getting the "cname lookup failed" error,
> >
> >Post the unedited output of qmail-showctl and the qmail log file showing
> >which domains this is occurring for.
> Aug 22 16:01:22 atelier qmail: 998514082.500902 starting delivery 84: msg
> 82609 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Aug 22 16:01:22 atelier qmail: 998514082.508279 delivery 84: deferral:
> CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/
[charrlesc@charon ultraseek-customization]$ dnsmx postgresql.org
20 mailserv.hub.org
20 mail1.hub.org
0 mail.postgresql.org
[charlesc@charon]$ dnsqr a mail.postgresql.org
1 mail.postgresql.org:
53 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 1 mail.postgresql.org
answer: mail.postgresql.org 86388 A 216.126.85.28
Okay, that's fine.
> Aug 22 16:03:26 atelier qmail: 998514206.517866 starting delivery 85: msg
> 80238 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Aug 22 16:03:26 atelier qmail: 998514206.524450 delivery 85: deferral:
> CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/
[charlesc@charon]$ dnsmx eisoftwareinc.com
50 mail-fwd.sanjose14-verio.com
[charlesc@charon]$ dnsqr a mail-fwd.sanjoe14-verio.com
1 mail-fwd.sanjoe14-verio.com:
45 bytes, 1+0+0+0 records, response, authoritative, nxdomain
query: 1 mail-fwd.sanjoe14-verio.com
> me: My name is offthehill.org.
That resolves forwards for me; it resolves backwards to some mindspring
address.
Are you sure your DNS resolver is working properly? Are you using
dnscache? What's in /etc/resolv.conf?
Charles
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