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.
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/04/91)
In article <16986@sunquest.UUCP> jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) writes: > >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: Many versions of 'sendmail.cf' come set up so that you can easily define a relay host. I bet you defined yourself to be the relay host. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (04/04/91)
In article <16986@sunquest.UUCP> jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) writes: >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 [...stuff deleted...] >jew@alpha... Connecting to alpha.sunquest.com (tcp)... >220 instfe.sunquest.com Sendmail 5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0 ready at Wed... There is only one reason I can think of that this would be happening and that is that sendmail is getting an MX from some nameserver pointing at instfe as the forwarder for alpha. You could try invoking sendmail directly using a -d option and look at the nameserver debug info. Of course, this assumes you are using nameservice, but if you aren't then I would really be at a loss to explain this. One other test that would be illuminating is to try mailing out of your domain, try jackv@seas.ucla.edu (yes, I will forgive the test mail :-}). If you still can't resolve this, send me email on your progress and I will attempt further suggestions. jackv@locus.com is the prefered address. Good luck. Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM
jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (04/05/91)
In article <1991Apr3.234406.8469@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <16986@sunquest.UUCP> jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) writes: >>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: > Many versions of 'sendmail.cf' come set up so that you can easily define >a relay host. I bet you defined yourself to be the relay host. Good guess Neil, the only problem with it is that AIX 1.2's sendmail.cf does not have the relayhost support in it as shipped. So unless he hacked the rules this would not be a possibility. I suspect MX problems as I said in a seperate posting. Disclaimer: I only work here, I don't speak for the company. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM