[TriLUG] Postfix Problems - DNS resolution different?

[Jason Tower]

postfix runs in a chroot environment, it uses the dns settings in 
/var/spool/postfix/etc.  copy the relevant files from /etc to that location 
and it will probably start working.

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:54, B. Evans wrote:
> I recently installed RedHat 8 on another machine.  The previous box had
> RedHat 7.3 and postfix worked right out of the box.  The new install is
> throwing the errors below in the log (/var/log/maillog).  The security
> is good, it accepts mail from my subnet.  But the log indicates to me
> that DNS is hosed.  DNS & resolv.conf on the system seems to work fine,
> pings and browsing on the machine work perfectly.  Any idea what to check?
>
>
> Jan 15 09:40:42 Ellsworth postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix
> mail system
> Jan 15 09:40:43 Ellsworth postfix/master[991]: daemon started
> Jan 15 09:41:53 Ellsworth postfix/smtpd[997]: connect from
> unknown[9.27.134.220]
> Jan 15 09:41:53 Ellsworth postfix/smtpd[997]: B66563EEEB:
> client=unknown[9.27.134.220]
> Jan 15 09:41:53 Ellsworth postfix/cleanup[998]: B66563EEEB:
> message-id=<3E257502.80800 at bellsouth.net>
> Jan 15 09:41:54 Ellsworth postfix/nqmgr[995]: B66563EEEB:
> from=<bpevans at bellsouth.net>, size=976, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jan 15 09:41:54 Ellsworth postfix/smtpd[997]: disconnect from
> unknown[9.27.134.220]
> Jan 15 09:41:54 Ellsworth postfix/smtp[1000]: B66563EEEB:
> to=<bpevans at bellsouth.net>, relay=none, delay=1, status=deferred (Name
> service error for bellsouth.net: Host not found, try again)
>
> -bp
>
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