have you tried sending the email using the server itself? have you checked your IP from the spam house blocked list? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:04 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Sendmail host name lookup failure On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 09:17 +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote: > I have a number of undelivered messages in the mailqueue. The mailqueue > reports: Deferred: Name server: yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure. I > attempted to send these emails from a remote client (Outlook Express) and > cannot understand why the domain name can't be discovered. > > nslookup yahoo.com. > Server: 210.55.12.1 > Address: 210.55.12.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: yahoo.com > Address: 66.94.234.13 This is an "A" record lookup; you need to look for "MX" records: $ dig yahoo.com mx Still can't see anything wrong though. > Don't know if the following is relevant > service nscd status > nscd is stopped Shouldn't be; I don't use nscd and sendmail works fine here. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
