Sounds like an issue with your dns setup.  Care to post that and perhaps
we can at least confirm that it's correct.  Also, what version of dns
are you using?


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Robert B. wrote:
> I moved my server to a different location (now behind a router) and am now
> running into problems with Sendmail sending messages through the
> mitvma.mit.edu domain.  It seems to be a problem with the piclist server
> trying to reverse-lookup my mail host.  For reference, my server's domain is
> "nerdulator.net" and the machine's name is "nerdulator".
>
> EHLO nerdulator.net gives a proper response, but
> EHLO nerdulator.nerdulator.net gives a timeout error, as well as
> EHLO anything.whatever
>
> Is this a problem anybody else has had?  I got around it by just changing
> the system's hostname to "nerdulator.net" with no computer name, but I
> understand that this is generally a bad idea for various reasons.
>
> Any sendmail gurus out there?  Comments are appreciated.
>
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