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From: brunner@bullhead.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Help with BHST error...
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Date: 28 Aug 90 23:11:14 GMT
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In article <9008211637.AA10788@hplpm.hpl.hp.com> marvit@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) writes:
>Jerry's answer about [BHST no servers available] was essentially correct.
>However, what this really means is: MH's post cannot connect to a running
>sendmail over an SMTP port.  (This, of course, assumes MH was compiles
>with SMTP and SENDMTS.)
>
>The potential problems:
>
>	1) Your local sendmail daemon is dying or not running for some
>	reason.
>
>	2) You use BIND and your local nameserver is not responding.
>
>	3) Your mtstailor has its "servers:" pointing to a non-existant
>	machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b) not running
>	the sendmail daemon.  
>
>Any others which should be added to the list?

I just experienced a combination of items 1 and 2. We've changed our domain
and in remaking /etc/named.* on the primary server, the localhosts entry in
/etc/named.hosts was munged. What should have read:

	loopback       IN      CNAME   localhost.
read
	loopback       IN      CNAME   localhost.awdpa.ibm.com.

This resulted in sendmail generating the following error message:

	NOQUEUE: SYSERR: getrequests: cannot bind: Address already in use

Send/post then fail with a similar error message described in the original
posting.

Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto	(415) 855-4486
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