:::. Sendmail on FreeBSD -> Deferred: Operation timed out with <server>

[Mikhail Goriachev]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-05-20 02:20, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at webanoide.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sendmail and I aren't getting along well. I got this FreeBSD
>> 6.0-RELEASE-p7 box doing SMTP work for me. Everything is fine, but a few
>> domains give me headaches with "Deferred: Operation timed out with
>> <server here>" errors. One domain in particular I'm trying to get to
>> work is hospitaldeninos.cl
>>
>> $ host hospitaldeninos.cl
>> hospitaldeninos.cl has address 200.31.44.1
>> mail is handled by 4 nt_sql_server2.hospitaldeninos.cl.
>> mail is handled by 5 mail.hospitaldeninos.cl.
>>
>> Whenever I try to send anything to that domain I just get the following
>> in my logs:
>>
>> [...] delay=01:00:57, xdelay=00:01:15, mailer=esmtp, pri=210425,
>> relay=mail.hospitaldeninos.cl. [200.29.150.146], dsn=4.0.0,
>> stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.hospitaldeninos.cl.
> 
> For some reason, your Sendmail setup tries to find out the IP address of
> the MX for `hospitaldeninos.cl' and it resolves this to the wrong mail
> server:
> 
>     mail.hospitaldeninos.cl
> 
> This would tend to work fine, as long as either one of the two MX hosts
> of the domain accepted email, but there are also problems connecting to
> the `mail.hospitaldeninos.cl:SMTP' service too.
> 
> What do the following files contain in the FreeBSD system that fails to
> resolve the MX records correctly?
> 
> 	/etc/hosts
> 	/etc/resolv.conf
> 	/etc/host.conf
> 	/etc/nsswitch.conf
> 


Thanks for quick response. These are the files:

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.tas.webanoide.org localhost
192.168.0.2 kavayito.tas.webanoide.org kavayito

/etc/resolv.conf
search tas.webanoide.org
nameserver 192.168.0.1

/etc/host.conf
hosts
bind

/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns



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