Re: v2.1.13 not sending out e-mail

[David Cress]

Our servers do not have external IP address, they are supposed to be
accessible only from the internal network.

damworker4ref1# dig web.turner.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> web.turner.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      web.turner.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
web.turner.com.         1D IN A         10.165.244.17

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
turner.com.             1D IN NS        TBSNAMES.turner.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
TBSNAMES.turner.com.    1D IN A         157.166.2.5

;; Total query time: 1 msec
;; FROM: damworker4ref1 to SERVER: default -- 10.188.71.254
;; WHEN: Thu Aug  4 10:45:32 2005
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 87


Tim Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, David Cress wrote:
> 
>> cfexecd is giving me the following error:
>>
>> Unknown host: web.turner.com
>> Make sure that fully qualified names can be looked up at your site!
>> i.e. www.gnu.org, not just www. If you use NIS or /etc/hosts
>> make sure that the full form is registered too as an alias!
>>
>> I added web to /etc/hosts just to make sure, same error.  It resolves in
>> DNS just fine.  As you can see in the defined objects below, sunman, is
> 
> 
> ------------------
> host -a web.turner.com twdns-01.ns.aol.com.
> Trying "web.turner.com"
> Using domain server:
> Name: twdns-01.ns.aol.com.
> Address: 149.174.213.151#53
> Aliases:
> 
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10129
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 5
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;web.turner.com.                        IN      ANY
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> web.turner.com.         3600    IN      MX      20 nymail1.turner.com.
> web.turner.com.         3600    IN      MX      30 atlmail2.turner.com.
> web.turner.com.         3600    IN      MX      10 atlmail1.turner.com.
> web.turner.com.         3600    IN      MX      10 atlmail4.turner.com.
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> turner.com.             3600    IN      NS      twdns-02.ns.aol.com.
> turner.com.             3600    IN      NS      twdns-03.ns.aol.com.
> turner.com.             3600    IN      NS      twdns-04.ns.aol.com.
> turner.com.             3600    IN      NS      twdns-01.ns.aol.com.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> atlmail1.turner.com.    3600    IN      A       64.236.240.146
> atlmail4.turner.com.    3600    IN      A       64.236.221.5
> nymail1.turner.com.     3600    IN      A       64.236.170.7
> nymail1.turner.com.     3600    IN      A       64.236.170.8
> atlmail2.turner.com.    3600    IN      A       64.236.240.147
> 
> Received 310 bytes from 149.174.213.151#53 in 267 ms
> ------------------
> 
>     I notice you don't have any A records for web.turner.com.  I believe
> this makes a difference.
> 
>     Or are the A records just not public?
> 
>     :)
> 

-- 
David Cress
Lead Engineer
CNN Internet Technologies
http://www.cnn.com
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