[ale] mail troubles today

[jj at spiderentertainment.com (jj at spiderentertainment.com)]

I had a similar problem with Sendmail, it appears to have something do to
with the Nameserver (I'm running both on one machine). The way I solved
it, is I made sure that the mail is started after named. Make sure you got
the right MX recordB. 



On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Jeff Dilcher wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I have a linux box in the net' which has 
> qmail running, and is called cueva.penguinpowered.com.
> 
> It should be receiving mail (it has in the past) via
> Qmail which I installed.
> 
> Today I couldn't send mail to the box from other 
> sites.  Here is the bounced mail message:
> 
> jdilcher at cueva.penguinpowered.com... Deferred: Name server:
> cueva.penguinpowered.com.: host name lookup failure
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 1 week old
> 
> Seems like the sender's box can't lookup the hostname,
> but if I run nslookup, I see the proper TCP address
> gets displayed.
> 
> Anyone know what could be happening?  This is happening
> from more than one sender site, so I think the problem
> must be with my dns somehow, or my box.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>