Managers, Thank you to all that replied. The answer to my question was: No, it is getting the MX record to determine where to send the mail. Do: The problem lies with guardian.org's DNS definitions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "DP" <datpace@earthlink.net> To: "Sunmanagers (E-mail)" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:50 AM Subject: sendmail's use of DNS > Managers, > It appears that our sendmail daemon is using a server for DNS queries that > it shouldn't use. Here's an example of a message from our log file: > > Sep 15 03:48:43 aaron sendmail[17169]: g8A9k6g22850: to=<postmaster@guardian>, > delay=4+22:02:37, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=10660138, > relay=guardian.whatever.org., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: > guardian.whatever.org.: host name lookup failure > > In the message above, it looks like the daemon is using the machine > "guardian.whatever.org" as its DNS server. Am I correct about that? If so, > it shouldn't be using that machine. Our resolv.conf file is correct and when > we resolve machine names and i.p. addresses using nslookup, the correct > information is returned and the correct name server is used. Is there a > method by which a particular DNS server can be assigned to sendmail (perhaps > via a configuration file)? I thought that sendmail would simply use the DNS > servers as they were specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Is that correct? > We are using sendmail 8.11.2. > Thank you for your help. > > -- DP > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Oct 10 11:12:09 2002
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