>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Alexander> Am Mo, den 14.06.2004 schrieb Colin Paul Adams um
Alexander> 11:11:
>> After installing (from scratch, apart from /home directory)
>> FC2, I can no longer receive mails from a particular address. I
>> used to receive mails from him when I had FC1 installed.
>>
>> The address concerned has an MX record - I can get a listing
>> with dig -t MX, but if I omit the -t MX record, then I get:
>>
>> Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
>>
>> and then timed out - not servers could be found.
Alexander> You name resolution setup is broken. You need to fix
Alexander> it.
>> fetchmail/sendmail rejects his emails with:
>>
>> maillog.1:Jun 7 23:53:45 colina sendmail[29693]:
>> i57MiHN5029693: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<neal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8
>> Domain of sender address neal@xxxxxxxxxxxx does not resolve
Alexander> The relay is localhost? Ah, because you get the mail
Alexander> via fetchmail.
>> So my questions are:
>>
>> 1) Is there a fix for this?
Alexander> Yes, you must setup DNS proper. If using bind then
Alexander> check your bind configuration. If you do not use any
Alexander> own name server then check the /etc/hosts file,
Alexander> /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf to be proper.
These appear to be OK.
I have bind running on my firewall machine (though since that is
running Redhat 7.2, it may well be an old version (9.1.0-10, in fact).
If I run dig command on that machine, I get the correct answer,
whether I use the -t flag or not.
If I run dig from my main machine, the query without the -t flag (or
with -t A) times out, but the query with -t MX returns instantly, with
the correct answer from the firewall machine.
resolve.conf has a line
nameserver 10.0.1.1, which is the IP address of my firewall
machine. (on the firewall machine, resolv.conf has the line nameserver
127.0.0.1).
So I can't figure out what's wrong.
Any more clues, please?
--
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
