> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:47 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> > My reply seems not to have been posted, so to restate:
> > I have an ADSL dialup with AOL, and sendmail fails.
> >
> > > Mar 6 22:11:34 base sendmail[13523]: j26KMbkD012891:
> > > to=<w.murray@xxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<root@MY-HOME-DOMAIN> (0/0),
> > > delay=01:48:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=802987,
> > > relay=XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
> > > XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk.: host name lookup failure
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks for the help. I've followed a couple of suggestions:
> >
> > *) Forget ssl, use my ISP's SMTP server. This is smtp.aol.com
> > The result is identical, with my work IP changed to smtp.aol.com
> > At least it proves ssl wasn't the problem!
> >
> > *) Try "MASQUERADE_DOMAIN"
> > I try many combinations, (aol.com), (ipt.aol.com), and I get one
of:
> > dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
> > or
> > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: smtp.aol.com: host name
lookup
> > failure
>
> Your local nameserver seems to be unable to resolve the name
> "smtp.aol.com". I certainly can from here. Do you have working DNS?
>
> What do you get for:
> $ dig smtp.aol.com +trace
> (dig is in the bind-utils package)
>
Hi Paul,
I THOUGHT this message meant smtp.aol.com was failing to look me up?
It seems to ,e DNS is OK for me, but I am no expert. I get the following
from dig:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.5rc1 <<>> smtp.aol.com +trace
;; global options: printcmd
. 1890 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 1890 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
;; Received 356 bytes from 205.188.146.145#53(205.188.146.145) in 97 ms
com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 502 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(b.root-servers.net) in 228
ms
aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-01.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-02.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-06.ns.aol.com.
aol.com. 172800 IN NS dns-07.ns.aol.com.
;; Received 181 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 303 ms
smtp.aol.com. 3600 IN CNAME smtp.cs.com.
. 99999999 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 99999999 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 263 bytes from 152.163.159.232#53(dns-01.ns.aol.com) in 93
ms
Is this OK?
Bill
