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Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Error message from smail
  • From: arunkhan@xxxxxxxx (Arun K. Khan)
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:04:08 -0500
  • Message-id: <3.0.5.32.19980715000408.008077e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



At 03:37 PM 07/14/98 -0400, Howard Arons wrote:
>
>Hmm. Two probs in the same day. Bad sign.
>When I send mail to a particular address "jdoe@xxxxxxxxxx" I get an
>smail error "No route to host." Odd thing is, I can ping "domain.com"
>without any trouble.
>
>Any idea why I should get that "no route" error when ping can find one?
>
>Howard Arons
>--

Does domain.com have a MX record? There should be at least one for the
domain. You can list all the records for domain.com by setting q=any
within "nslookup"

Whereas, ping simply sends an echo request message to the IP address for
domain.com.

-- Arun Khan
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