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

"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.

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.

Stas Solodkin wrote:
> 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.
What I meant is even though I fixed the reverse lookup, it still doesn't
work.