jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) (04/04/91)
Please help me with this problem if you can. I am trying to get sendmail to send to other hosts on the internet. I am running AIX PS/2 1.2 on a PS/2 Model 70. Everything works fine except outbound mail. It seems that sendmail connects back to the same machine instead of the destination machine: AIX instfe 2.1> mail -v jew@alpha Subject: Test This is one. . Cc: jew@alpha... Connecting to alpha.sunquest.com (tcp)... 220 instfe.sunquest.com Sendmail 5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0 ready at Wed, 3 Apr 91 13:14:1 9 -0700 >>> HELO instfe.sunquest.com 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local >>> QUIT 221 instfe.sunquest.com closing connection jew@alpha... Service unavailable: No such file or directory Saving message in /u/jew/dead.letter /u/jew/dead.letter... Sent Now alpha is a VMS host running SMTP. I included it as an example because it is more informative than: AIX instfe 2.1> mail -v jew@rt Subject: Test This is another one. . Cc: jew@rt... Connecting to rt.sunquest.com (tcp)... jew@rt... Host unknown Saving message in /u/jew/dead.letter /u/jew/dead.letter... Sent I know what you're thinking! He can't reach the other hosts, right! No, I can telnet, rlogin, ftp, and anything else you can imagine except send mail to them: AIX instfe 2.1> ping rt PING rt.sunquest.com: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.12.52.50: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms ----rt.sunquest.com PING Statistics---- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/0/0 Please point me in the right direction if you can and thanks for bearing with me in any case! Any help will be much appreciated and thanks in advance! J. E. Ward jew@sunquest.com Confucious say... Be security conscious -- National Defense is at stake.