[LI] sendmail

[Shourya Sarcar <sarcar@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Listers,
	I have connected two machines on a TCP/IP network. It runs on a
simple hostfile mech.. ie /etc/hosts which looks like this

192.168.166.1 lux 	lux.foo.edu
192.168.166.2 brutus	brutus.foo.edu

I have no problem in pinging or telnetting from lux to brutus or
vice-versa and socket based apps run fine.

I have sendmail running on brutus but if i send a mail to someone at lux
$mail goofy@xxxxxxxxxxx 
the mail stays in the mail queue and sendmail -bp (after a while) shows
that the queue hasn't been flushed . The status is "Deferred:could not
lookup hostname"

In the sendmail.cf file I have unremarked the hostfile=entry.

am I missing out on something very basic ? What HOWTOs/man pages should i
look into ? I have gone thru the Mail-HOWTO and sendmail man pages.

Regards
Shourya


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