Host name lookup fails
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
Sun Sep 10 18:57:50 UTC 2000
Hi,
I was trying to track down why someone isn't receiving mail (on a machine
where I don't have root access).
The sendmail queue says
(Deferred: Name server: rain.org.: host name lookup failure)
Martha <mar---- at rain.org>
That machine doesn't have dig installed AFAIK (it's not running named
locally), so I used nslookup and it returns "*** ns2.Berkeley.EDU can't
find rain.org.: Server failed", but I can use dig from my own machine and
lookup the MX. nslookup will resolve for q=a, but not q=mx (shown below).
Clearly I'm missing something obvious but I just can see it. Why can dig
resolve, yet not nslookup nor the resolver in sendmail. (I just did a
sendmail -q and it hangs on the lookup of rain.org.)
95) /etc %cat resolv.conf
;
; BIND data file.
;
domain Berkeley.EDU
nameserver 128.32.136.12
nameserver 128.32.136.9
nameserver 128.32.206.12
nameserver 128.32.206.9
94) /etc %nslookup
Default Server: ns2.Berkeley.EDU
Address: 128.32.136.12
> rain.org.
Server: ns2.Berkeley.EDU
Address: 128.32.136.12
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: rain.org
Address: 198.68.144.2
> set q=mx
> rain.org.
Server: ns2.Berkeley.EDU
Address: 128.32.136.12
*** ns2.Berkeley.EDU can't find rain.org.: Server failed
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> rain.org mx @128.32.136.12
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; rain.org, type = MX, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
rain.org. 3h54m12s IN MX 1 coyote.rain.org.
rain.org. 3h54m12s IN MX 1 mail.rain.org.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
rain.org. 3h54m12s IN NS ns1.rain.org.
rain.org. 3h54m12s IN NS ns2.rain.org.
rain.org. 3h54m12s IN NS coyote2.rain.org.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
coyote.rain.org. 3h54m12s IN A 198.68.144.2
mail.rain.org. 3h54m12s IN A 198.68.144.2
ns1.rain.org. 26m15s IN A 198.68.144.2
ns2.rain.org. 26m15s IN A 198.68.144.20
coyote2.rain.org. 3h54m12s IN A 198.68.144.14
;; Total query time: 49 msec
;; FROM: mardy to SERVER: 128.32.136.12
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 10 11:41:40 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 26 rcvd: 208
Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley at hank.org
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