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Re: "Name server failure" is output

From: mouss (moussnetoyen.net)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 04:39:33 CST


Yuichi Shirakawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A following message was output on my postfix server.
>
> --------
> Dec 5 03:50:01 testsrv postfix/smtpd[23533]: warning: mmm.nnn.ooo.ppp:
> hostname ppp.ooo.nnn.mmm.in-addr.arpa verification failed: Name server
> failure
> --------
> # mmm.nnn.ooo.ppp is IP address.
>
> Please tell me whether a corresponding E-mail is rejected.
>

no. it's just a warning in case you need to track misconfigured hosts or
DNS problems.
> If the E-mail is rejected, do it retry until the one can be sent?

other log lines should show whether the message is accepted or rejected
(by some rules).