Mails sent to local mail addresses doesn't work

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

I can't send mails to local addresses using an simple script.

- OS: HP-UX 11.11
- Server name: neftis.santpau.es
- Mail addresses: operacio@santpau.es or operacio@hsp.santpau.es

- Command to send mail from my script:

mailx -s DIARI_NEFTIS operacio@hsp.santpau.es < $FITXER_DADES

- Error message we got after every try:

[Attach #1: ""]
[Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 310]

from root@localhost

from root@localhost

from root@localhost

from root@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
operacio@hsp.santpau.es

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 operacio@hsp.santpau.es... Host unknown (Name server: hsp.santpau.es: host not found)

[Attach #2: ""]
[Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 262]

Reporting-MTA: dns; neftis.santpau.es
Arrival-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:17:21 +0200 (METDST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; operacio@hsp.santpau.es
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; hsp.santpau.es
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:17:21 +0200 (METDST)

[Attach #3: ""]
[Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 6063]

[Muthukumar_5]

nslookup hsp.santpau.es

Is it resolving?

Else put related entries in /etc/hosts file and try now.

hth.

[Pete Randall]

It seems it can't find hsp.santpau.es. What does nslookup return?


Pete

[Arunvijai_4]

Can you able to ping hsp.santpau.es ? It seems to be host name resolution problem.

-Arun

[Carles Viaplana]

Thanks for your fast reply.

Here you're ping and nslookup results:

# ping hps.santpau.es
ping: unknown host hps.santpau.es
# nslookup hsp.santpau.es
Name Server: heidi.santpau.es
Address: 193.146.12.2

Trying DNS
Trying NIS
looking up FILES
*** No address information is available for "hsp.santpau.es"
#

Regards,

Carles

[Muthukumar_5]

Ok.

Go to your machine and edit /etc/hosts file as,

vi /etc/hosts

and add,

hsp.santpau.es

save it.

Do as,

# ping hsp.santpau.es
# nslookup hsp.santpau.es

Is it resolving now.

If it is success then you can able to send mail.

hth.

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello again,

Note that hsp.santpau.es and santpau.es are domains instead systems.

Mail server name is zurich and I can ping it from neftis:

# nslookup zurich
Name Server: heidi.santpau.es
Address: 193.146.12.2

Trying DNS
Name: zurich.santpau.es
Addresses: 172.17.0.5, 172.17.0.61

# ping zurich.santpau.es
PING zurich.santpau.es: 64 byte packets
64 bytes from 172.17.0.61: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.61: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.61: icmp_seq=2. time=0. ms

----zurich.santpau.es PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/0/0
#

Regards,

Carles

[Arunvijai_4]

It couldn't find hsp.santpau.es in DNS, NIS and /etc/hosts. If you know the IP of hsp.santpau.es, try adding it to /etc/hosts

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

what is there in /etc/resolv.conf. Do you have domain name with that hsp.santpau.es?

hth.

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

Here you're resolv.conf file:

# more /etc/resolv.conf
domain santpau.es
nameserver 193.146.12.2
nameserver 193.146.12.3
nameserver 193.146.12.4
#

Just 2 comments:

1. Can I add a 2nd domain on resolv.conf?
2. I checked configuration on other system from same domain and resolv.conf file is exactly the same, so I don't believe this is the cause.

Regards,

Carles