Hi, On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 04:10:01AM +0200, Rosenegger, Korbinian wrote: > > I have trouble setting up Postfix (2.1.4-5) sending mail (receiving > > mail works fine) on an up to date sarge system. > > > > I have no local DNS-server running on that machine. DNS queries with > > dig or host works fine! > > > > My Problem: When I try to send mail with Postfix (i.e. to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), Postfix starts a correct DNS-query for the > > MX-Record of web.de. (I have done a tcpdump to verify that). Postfix > > also gets the correct answer (mx-ha01.web.de in this example). > > > > But than postfix didn't start a DNS-query for the A-Record of the > > MX-Host (as I can see in the output from tcpdump). Instead Postfix > > writes to syslog: > > > > Sep 28 17:34:56 host postfix/smtp[12455]: warning: no MX host for web.de has a > > valid A record > > > > Why can Postfix start an correct DNS-query for the MX-Record but isn't > > going to ask the DNS-server for the A-Record of the MX-Host? > > > I just had exactly the same problem, took about an hour to find the problem. > Just before the problem first appears i remounted /var with the noexec flag. > Remounting without this flag solved the problem. I hope this information > helped you.
sorry for my very late answere, but I was very busy last week. That was exactly the problem. Now everything works fine! Thanks a lot Florian -- gpg-key: http://yola.in-berlin.de/rossol.gpg Bitte keine Dateien in proprietären Formaten versenden. Siehe http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
