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From: iglesias@orion.cf.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Trouble sending mail to MMDF sites
Message-ID: <1872@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 03:13:42 GMT
References: <181@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: iglesias@orion.cf.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <181@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>I should point out that during this period our host has delivered mail
>to zillions of other Internet hosts, most of them sendmail sites plus
>a few TOPS-20 and VMS and what-have-you, without any problems, and our
>zone name server and its parent seem to be working just fine.

The problem is that the MMDF systems can't resolve your IP address
to your host name.  My system can't resolve tis.llnl.gov to an IP
address, and several of the systems here (VMS and Unix) can't get
mail delivered to llnl.gov sites.  I think there's a problem with
a nameserver somewhere - I can't tell if it's yours or not.  If you're
not running the llnl.gov server, maybe that one is broken?


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine