Viktor Matys wrote: > Hello, > > I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. > When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: > > WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be > reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? > > As we can see there in brackets is an error message instead of true > local host name. This message is returned from dns lookup procedure. But > dns lookup has no problem (responses are pretty fast): > > hostname -f > server.example.com
Double-check that the sendmail user account is allowed to perform DNS queries. If you have firewall rules that only let through hostname lookups for the root user, you'll probably experience timeout problems when using a normal user account. Regards, Kim -- |_|O|_| Kim Christensen |_|_|O| Public key: http://rac.nu/kchr.asc |O|O|O| Web home: http://rac.nu -------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campain - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
