Looks like hotmail.com is timing out on the nslookup
works OK using a local server
tedc
tedc@tarka:~ > nslookup rez256.uleth.ca soldns.wv.mentorg.com
Server: soldns.wv.mentorg.com
Address: 147.34.96.199
Name: rez256.uleth.ca
Address: 142.66.1.10
tedc@tarka:~ > nslookup rez256.uleth.ca hotmail.com
*** Can't find server name for address 64.4.52.7: No response from server
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Pascoe [
mailto:wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:54 PM
To: Aly Dharshi
Cc: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Help
"Aly Dharshi" <aly.dharshi@???> writes:
> Hello Exim Gurus,
>
> I have started noticing such messages in my exim log:
>
> 2001-08-13 15:33:10 refused relay (host) to <ferhanbhanji@???>
> from <aly.dharshi@???> H=(rez256.uleth.ca) [142.66.73.2] (failed
> to find host name from IP address)
>
>
> And a couple more like this. I use Eudora as a mail client and
> yesterday everything was well. Today I try sending mail and these are
> the messages I receive.
>
>
> I have allowed messages from the *.reznet.uleth.ca to be
> accepted by Exim for delivery via smtp. I have noticed that messages
> from remote sites such as from cs.uleth.ca or uleth.ca even webmail on
> another server in the reznet.uleth.ca system are accepted and
> delivered comfortably.
It sounds to me like it is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP
address. The line that controls this in your exim config is
host_lookup
You could try commenting that line out of your exim config file. The
other thing that you could try is to add a reverse dns entry for your
IP address if you control that in-addr.arpa zone.
HTH
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- Wayne Pascoe
E-mail: wayne.pascoe@???
Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668
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