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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-05-20 05:04, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at webanoide.org> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> 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

I see.  Does the nameserver at 192.168.0.1 reply with correct
data for the `hospitaldeninos.cl' domain?  It seems that your
Sendmail gets `mail.hospitaldeninos.cl' as the primary MX for
that domain from somewhere, but it isn't obvious from these files
where the wrong reply comes from.