From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 04:17:40 CST

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Sunday 18 November 2007 01:15:52 Bill Cole wrote:
> At 9:38 PM +0000 11/17/07, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >I can send messages from this laptop to anne lydgate.lan and they will
> > appear on my imap server (machine 'david'). However, I am not getting
> > root's mail. The alias is set up - root: annelydgate.lan.
> >
> >The mail queue shows
> >
> >Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
> > name=david.lydgate.lan type=A: Host not found, try again
> >
> >The transport hash includes
> >
> >lydgate.net smtp:[david.lydgate.lan]
> >.lydgate.net smtp:[david.lydgate.lan]
> >
> >What have I missed?
>
> Maybe that 'net'!='lan' but that doesn't seem a likely cause of the
> error cited.
>
> The error is simply one of name resolution. Make it possible to
> resolve an IP address for the hostname 'david.lydgate.lan' and that
> error should vanish.

Thanks Bill & Ralf. I'm replying to both in one, since they are obviously on
the same track.

Ralf said:
> host david.lydgate.lan
> says what?

Host david.lydgate.lan not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

which supports the theory, however....

/etc/hosts contains the line
192.168.0.70 david.lydgate.lan

and I can ping by name:

ping david.lydgate.lan
PING david.lydgate.lan (192.168.0.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from david.lydgate.lan (192.168.0.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.87 ms

Where does that leave me? I can't think what else to check.

Anne
--
Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBHQBFFj93fyh4cnBcRAo63AKCJkmgY5IahAofO7FTVu2y1hM86tQCbBdSR
NNZALCWoAW02hTXwwyXLtM4=
=10uj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]