On Jun 17, Hubert Palme wrote : Heiko Schlittermann: : > Reads as an DNS problem. Try to turn on more debugging in smail : > (-v1000 or somewhat similar, see the manpage ...). This way you should : > be able to find what actually is the BIND failure. No MX (but that : > should'nt hurd), no response ... : : How is smail run? I neither found any daemon running nor any inetd : entry! Nevertheless -- this mail is sent from my Linux box :-) : : > : > Try ``mx post.metrolink.net'' or ``host post.metrolink.net''. : : Seems to show the MX records. Where can I find documentation about : this program?
Should come with bind or {bind,dns}-tools.
Wait ...
$ dpkg -S $(type -p mx)
$ dnsutils: /usr/bin/mx
$ dpkg -s dnsutils
Package: dnsutils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: net
Installed-Size: 147
Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 970203-0.1
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Conflicts: netstd (<< 2.00)
Description: Utilities for querying the DNS.
This package includes the "host" program for querying
information from the Domain Name System (DNS). It also
includes several short aliases (mx, ns, soa, zone) for
querying specific information, as well as two shell
scripts: nslookup and mxlookup.
Heiko
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