Re: Huge number of entries in /var/log/maillog

[Paul Greene <pauljgreene@comcast.net>]

Claus Assmann wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 07, 2003, Paul Greene wrote:
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>>Aug  7 18:01:18 <isp.assigned.hostname> sm-msp-queue[30602]: 
>>h73AU1EQ012645: to=postmaster, delay=4+12:30:01, xdelay=00:00:00, 
>>mailer=relay, pri=19565956, relay=localhost.home.net., dsn=4.0.0, 
>>stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with localhost.home.net
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>	Note: if localhost doesn't resolve to the IP address
>	of your local system (127.0.0.1 or ::1 for IPv6),
>	then you either need to fix your hostname resolution
>	(localhost and localhost.YOUR.DOMAIN should resolve
>	to that address by convention) or you need to specify
>	the IP address as argument, e.g.,
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>		FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')
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>	This belongs in submit.mc, not in sendmail.mc.
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>>/etc/hosts was changed to the following (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1 are 
>>interfaces on the firewall but facing internal subnets; 192.168.1.2 is 
>>the webserver on a separate machine):
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>>::1 localhost localhost
>>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost
>>192.168.0.1 localhost localhost
>>192.168.1.1 localhost localhost
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>Why do you list localhost twice per entry?
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I just removed the "home.net" string from every line in the existing file.

I added the other interfaces (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1) because I 
found it got rid of the following error messages:

Aug  7 18:43:26 <isp.assigned.hostname> sendmail[30039]: 
gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1
Aug  7 18:43:26 <isp.assigned.hostname> sendmail[30039]: 
gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1

>>I'm not sure where sendmail is getting the information to try to relay 
>>messages to "domainspa.com", since there is no reference to it in 
>>"sendmail.cf".
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>submit.cf probably still uses localhost on your machine...
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>>So I guess the information I'm trying to decipher is, is the current 
>>configuration of /etc/hosts I now have correct?
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>Doesn't look like it. 192.x.y.z isn't "localhost".
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Are the ip addresses assigned to the firewall (other than localhost 
127.0.0.1) supposed to be listed in /etc/hosts? It's got a dynamically 
assigned IP on the external interface, and 2 internal addresses 
(mentioned above). If they are, how would those lines be formatted in 
/etc/hosts?

I did change /etc/myname from "<hostname>.home.net" to 
"<hostname>.comcast.net"

Paul