Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 10:43 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> > I am trying to send mail to someone@xxxxxxxxx and sendmail kept on
> >> > saying hostname not found.  I dig, host, and nslookup on the domain
> >> > and all gave the proper info.  When sending the email, sendmail
> >> > reports that vginc.net hostname not found..
> >>
> >> The usual cause for this is they not having an MX entry for the
> >> domain,
>
> If you do not have an MX entry, the A entry is picked.
>
> >> but they do have one:
> >>
> >>   cer@nimrodel:~> host vginc.net
> >>   vginc.net has address 69.93.189.34
> >>   vginc.net mail is handled by 0 vginc.net.
> >>
> >> However, that zero... i don't know if sendmail is coughing because of
> >> that, could be.
> >
> >It certainly could be the 0 (which is the priority), but their MX and A
> >records appear to be correct.
>
> But 0 is valid.
Essentially, that is what I said. But, it could be a problem with sendmail.
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