Really wierd glitch in resolution

[Duncan Hill]

On 2001-02-22, Kevin Darcy did say,

> Are you getting this message back from *your*own* machine, or from
> some machine in the mass.edu mail infrastructure? This could be as
> simple as a botched forwarding alias.

No, sendmail logs indicate that it is the local list server that is
failing to work properly.  I can sit on the same machine, and use the
mail command to send mail.  It doesn't appear to bounce.

Feb 22 18:58:29 einstein sendmail[2326]: SAA22296:
to=****@hcc.mass.edu, ctladdr=dhill (8/0), delay=00:00:18,
xdelay=00:00:17, mailer=esmtp, relay=graygull.hcc.mass.edu.
[134.241.135.3], stat=Sent (OK)

Yet from the failed mail that MAjordomo is trying to send:

Feb 22 11:57:55 einstein sendmail[21860]: LAA19372: LAA21860: DSN:
Host unknown (Name server: hoc.mass.edu: host not found)

I have TRIPLE checked the entry in the list subscribers, even deleting
the file and re-entering it by hand.  No go.

> In any case, if the address is bouncing, why not just remove it
> from the mailing list? Obviously it's not doing anything useful...

Not an option.  Its a list we host for someone else, and the order
form on high is to make it work.  The fact that the main mail server
(a Novell based system running Groupwise) can send and receive from
him is making "my" AIX box look bad.  

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