smiller@chip.UUCP (Scott Miller) (09/11/90)
Hopefully some sendmail-guru can help me.
We just upgraded our M/1000 to 4.50 and I can not get sendmail to work
correctly. The log file keeps saying:
stat=Deferred: Host Name Lookup Failure
What service is sendmail trying to use to resolve the address; DARPA or YP?
Will this always fail because yellowpages in broken? Do I have to wait for
4.51?
Any help is appreciated.
skm
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INET: chip!smiller@nosc.mil Scott Miller
UUCP: {nosc ucsd}!chip!smiller System Administrator/Programmer
The views expressed herein are my own and are not that of my employers.steve@nixtdc.uucp (Stephen Lane) (09/11/90)
In <343@chip.UUCP> smiller@chip.UUCP (Scott Miller) writes: >Hopefully some sendmail-guru can help me. I don't think I'll ever fall into that category... >We just upgraded our M/1000 to 4.50 and I can not get sendmail to work >correctly. The log file keeps saying: >stat=Deferred: Host Name Lookup Failure >What service is sendmail trying to use to resolve the address; DARPA or YP? >Will this always fail because yellowpages in broken? Do I have to wait for >4.51? A few weeks ago, we upgraded our 2030s from 4.10 to 4.50, and were having similar difficulties with sendmail. Using the 4.10 version of /usr/lib/sendmail is tiding us over adequately until the promise of the 4.51 fix. >Any help is appreciated. Hope it did! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nixdorf Computer Canada Ltd | Stephen Lane 2235 Sheppard Av E, Willowdale | UUCP: steve@nixtdc.UUCP Ontario, Canada. M5G 5B5 | "When all else fails, read the instructions!"
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (09/13/90)
In article <1990Sep11.110007.10274@nixtdc.uucp> steve@nixtdc.uucp (Stephen Lane) writes: >A few weeks ago, we upgraded our 2030s from 4.10 to 4.50, and were having >similar difficulties with sendmail. Using the 4.10 version of /usr/lib/sendmail >is tiding us over adequately until the promise of the 4.51 fix. In order to use 4.50's sendmail with /etc/hosts as your host lookup service (default or "host: files" in vis.conf), your host names must be fully qualified domain names in the host file. (This is not a Mips change.) In 4.51, you may link /usr/lib/sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail.nonamed and *not* fully qualify your hostnames in /etc/hosts instead. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. MS 6-05 930 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I'm the NLA" "Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself." --Rita Mae Brown
houman@mips2.cr.bull.com (Houman Shafiezadeh) (09/14/90)
In article <343@chip.UUCP>, smiller@chip.UUCP (Scott Miller) writes: > Hopefully some sendmail-guru can help me. > > We just upgraded our M/1000 to 4.50 and I can not get sendmail to work > correctly. The log file keeps saying: > > stat=Deferred: Host Name Lookup Failure > > What service is sendmail trying to use to resolve the address; DARPA or YP? > Will this always fail because yellowpages in broken? Do I have to wait for > 4.51? > > Any help is appreciated. > > skm > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > INET: chip!smiller@nosc.mil Scott Miller > UUCP: {nosc ucsd}!chip!smiller System Administrator/Programmer > The views expressed herein are my own and are not that of my employers. This depends on how you have configured your sendmail. It either uses /etc/hosts to resolve address or a nameserver. I had this same problem and I resolved it by adding domain names to all the hosts in /etc/hosts. I have heard that 4.51 has a much better sendmail.cf. There is a whole section in the 4.50 release notes that I found very helpful. ========================================================================== | || | |Houman Shafiezadeh || houman@mips2.cr.bull.com | |Unix Software Development || | |Bull H.N. Information Systems ||=======================================| |300 Concord RD. || | |Billerica, MA 01821 || | | || | ==========================================================================