Mail not working after install

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 18 01:22:48 UTC 2001


Ralph Brown wrote:
> 
> Oct 17 17:38:51 www postfix/smtpd[12385]: warning: 66.120.4.162: hostname
> policing.net verification failed: Host name has no address

Postfix looks up 66.120.4.162 (a bit like dig -x 66.120.4.162)
and finds it is policing.net

policing.net has no A record in your local zone file - it does
in the Internet version of policing.net, but not in the zone
file you posted.

> Oct 17 17:38:51 www postfix/smtpd[12385]: connect from unknown[66.120.4.162]
> Oct 17 17:38:51 www postfix/smtpd[12385]: 66F0CEBF06:
> client=unknown[66.120.4.162]
> Oct 17 17:38:51 www postfix/smtpd[12385]: reject: RCPT from
> unknown[66.120.4.162]: 554 <php4u at pacbell.net>: Recipient address rejected:
> Relay access denied; from=<rbrown at policing.net> to=<php4u at pacbell.net>
> Oct 17 17:39:00 www postfix/smtpd[12385]: disconnect from
> unknown[66.120.4.162]

It has concluded it can't relay, but this is a Postfix issue if
it isn't just a result of the missing A record.
 
> 
> Resolv.conf =
> 
> #domain policing.net
> #search pacbell.net
> search policing.net
> nameserver 192.168.123.139 # RH ip#
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 206.13.28.12 # pacbell dns
> #nameserver 206.13.30.12 # pacbell dns
> ________________________________________
> 
> Named.conf =
 
> forwarders {
>   206.13.28.12;
>   206.13.30.12;
>   66.120.4.162;

You are listing servers with different views of the DNS in
resolv.conf, this will lead to weird and unexpected behaviour
(as you have discovered), don't do it.

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