Dennis Mood wrote:
> "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.
>
>
The strangte thing is that it doesn't.