--On 15 July 2009 07:28:57 -0400 Neal Becker <ndbecker2@???> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> --On 14 July 2009 08:36:49 -0400 Neal Becker <ndbecker2@???> wrote:
>> > What's wrong here:
>> >
>> > 2009-07-13 14:35:32 H=(localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] sender verify
>> > defer for <ndbecker2@???>: host lookup for smtp.hns.com did not
>> > complete (DNS timeout?)
>>
>> Beats me. Why would a sender verification callout for
>> "ndbecker2@???" care about "smtp.hns.com"? Have you changed
>> anything here, or do you have some strange routing for gmail, or is
>> smtp.hns.com a smart router?
>
> Yes, smtp.hns.com is a smarthost
OK, so it's relaying your callouts? Otherwise there's no point doing them.
Was your name server up 14:35 on 13/7/2009 ? Was smtp.hns.com up?
>> > 2009-07-13 14:35:32 H=(localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1]
>> > F=<ndbecker2@???> temporarily rejected RCPT
>> > <ndbecker2@???>: Could not complete sender verify
>> > 2009-07-13 14:35:32 H=(localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1]
>> > F=<ndbecker2@???> temporarily rejected RCPT
>> > <victor.liau@???>: Could not complete sender verify
>> > 2009-07-13 15:22:32 H=(localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] sender verify
>> > defer for <ndbecker2@???>: host lookup for smtp.hns.com did not
>> > complete (DNS timeout?)
>> >
>> > It sounds like this means smtp.hns.com dns lookup failed. But on this
>> > same machine:
>> >
>> > host smtp.hns.com
>> > smtp.hns.com is an alias for excore8.hns.com.
>> > excore8.hns.com has address 139.85.52.126
>> > excore8.hns.com has address 139.85.52.156
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>
>
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