Try your DNS tests as a REALLY unprivileged user.

The Postfix SMTP client runs as user postfix and therefore does
not have the all-powerful privileges that you may have.

        Wietse

Charlie Whisker:
> Hello, I have just installed
> Postfix(postfix-20010228-pl03) on solaris 7. The
> environment is not chrooted. My DNS server works fine
> with dig, host etc. Yet I have mail stuck in the
> deferred queue. Running mailq shows many of these
> entries:
>
> (Name service error for sonymusic.com: Host not found,
> try again)
>
>
> Now I can look up the MX records for the above domain
> just fine from this machine. I can do a:
>
> I looked at the FAQ and it only makes mention of this
> problem in chroot environments that are missing files.
> This is not the case here though. Can someone shed
> some light on this and possible causes.
> Thanks
> Paul
>
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