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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!jacs From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton ) Subject: Re: sendmail and named on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Message-ID: <CwqH9K.pr@gnome.co.uk> References: <CwLG8t.3nr@nfx.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 11:00:56 GMT Lines: 26 Chie-Jin Cheng (chiejin@nfx.com) wrote: : Hi there, : I have set up the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on one of our systems. I run : sendmail on that system. Don't know why, if I run named on the : system, sendmail will not spawn itself and thus hangs there. : Can someone give me some suggestions on how to find out the : problem? Sendmail will be trying to look up the mx record for the recipient host. The chances are that your named is returning an error this will make sendmail try again and thus loop. To check use nslookup set debug on and record type to mx and have a look at the output for a suitable host. Chris. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG