host lookup did not complete ?

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tamino

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Hello

i get this messeage sent to me when i send an email out , can you advice whats making this happen. (please read below).


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its recipients after more than 24 hours on the queue on server.tycoonserver.com.

The message identifier is: 1DpIX3-0002Zx-Md
The subject of the message is: submit
The date of the message is: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:07:45 -0400

The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:

[email protected]
Delay reason: host lookup did not complete

No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, and when that happens, the message will be returned to you.
 
The server tried to find the MX record and then the IP# of the MX server, for gmail.com, but couldn't.

To track this log in through the shell and do a:

dig gmail.com mx

and see what you get.

If you get a response, then the server should get a response as well.

If you don't get a response, or if it's still not working, post the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Jeff
 
contents of my

resolv.conf :

#nameserver 208.4.52.7
nameserver 208.32.175.74
search localdomain

and did is what i got when i ran dig MX gmail.com


;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3556
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmail.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail.com. 1018 IN MX 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com. 1018 IN MX 10 gsmtp171.google.com.
gmail.com. 1018 IN MX 10 gsmtp171-2.google.com.
gmail.com. 1018 IN MX 10 gsmtp185.google.com.
gmail.com. 1018 IN MX 10 gsmtp185-2.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
gsmtp171.google.com. 4618 IN A 64.233.171.27
gsmtp171-2.google.com. 4618 IN A 64.233.171.114
gsmtp185.google.com. 4618 IN A 64.233.185.27
gsmtp185-2.google.com. 4618 IN A 64.233.185.114

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 208.32.175.74#53(208.32.175.74)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 5 15:29:02 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 234
 
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this is what i got

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> 208.32.175.74
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 14750
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;208.32.175.74. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISI
GN-GRS.COM. 2005070500 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 5 16:21:57 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106
 
also
this just started happening about 3 hours ago a couple of my email accounts when using outlook express, i cant send mail it ask for password but when i enter the correct passowrd it still does not accept it.


I tried to use squirrelmail to send email , and this is what i get


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
Unrouteable address

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.tycoonserver.com)
by server.tycoonserver.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44)
id 1DpuCF-0002bL-9i
for [email protected]; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:39:11 -0400
Received: from 66.83.155.201.nw.nuvox.net ([66.83.155.201])
(SquirrelMail authenticated user [email protected])
by www.tycoonserver.com with HTTP;
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <1449.66.83.155.201.1120595951.squirrel@www.tycoonserver.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: yahoo
From: "Information Department ( TycoonServer.com)" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-rc1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
 
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Your server is attempting to use:

208.32.175.74

as it's nameserver, but the server at

208.32.175.74

is NOT working as a recursive nameserver.

Either find another nameserver to use, or use localhost, or get that server fixed.

Jeff
 
I'm getting the similar problems, but only for emails sent to gmail:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
all relevant MX records point to

Any ideas?
 
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Without specific details; your server's hostname, the domain name in the from address, the domain name in the to address, it's impossible to tell with certainty...

But...

It appears there's a DNS problem somewhere.

Jeff
 
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