List,
Thanks for the responses. The SMTP was being denied by my upstream provider as a matter
of policy. I have asked them to turn back on. A simple telnet on port 25 to any mail
server ended with no response.
Steve
coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org on Monday, July 17, 2006 at 6:57 AM +0000 wrote:
>>
>> I have seen this error before. It was diagnosed as a DNS
>> settings error where the server was unable to retrieve an
>> acceptable name. The fix was to turn on BlueQuartz DNS and
>> put 127.0.0.1 back in as the primary DNS source.
>
>You need a working nameserver here, not 127.0.0.1
>Probably using the IP address of the server itself would sork better.
>Test by running 'dig' in a shell session
> "dig yahoo.com"
>See if you get an answer.
>
>> Jul 16 07:57:13 blue in.qpopper[16500]: (v4.0.5) Unable to
>> get canonical name of client
>
>The above indicates that the server failed on gethostbyaddr()
>
>Gerald
>
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