"Stas Solodkin" <stas@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
news:4517837f$1@news.orcon.net.nz...
> Hi
> I am trying to send a message manually by:
> telnet 127.0.0.1
> Sometimes it works, but most of the time it ens up
> with a message(in mailq):
>
> (Deferred remote.smtp.host.: Network is unreachable)
> I can ping remote.smtp.host and nslookup returns it's ip address.
> On some of remote.smtp.hosts I can telnet to port 25, on some can't.
>
>
> When I do an nslookup on 10.1.1.3 which is my machine I get an error.
> Same for mymachine.mydomain. Even though I have an entry for them in my
> /etc/hosts file.
>
> Could someone plese me as I spent the whole day trying to figure it
> out and now I am about to byte myself on the forehead.
>
> Thanks in advance

If your nslookup on 10.1.1.3 fails, check that you have a related PTR in
your revese lookup file for the zone.