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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org>
To: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
Cc: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>, Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Subject: Re: Potential exim/minires VPN problem
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F623053.BBE14858@phumblet.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030912203945.GK1840@tishler.net>

Jason Tishler wrote:
> 
> Pierre,
> 
> On my laptop, exim/minires has transient DNS lookup problems when I'm
> VPN-ed into my company's network, but does not exhibit this behavior
> when I'm directly connected to it.
> 
> When VPN-ed, I get errors like the following:
> 
>     2003-09-12 15:07:36 HL47SO-00014S-5P <= jason.tishler@foo.com H=(tishlerjason.bar.foo.com) [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=882 id=20030912190735.GH2180@foo.com
>     2003-09-12 15:08:01 HL47SO-00014S-5P == jason.tishler@foo.com R=send_to_gateway defer (-36): host lookup for smtp.foo.com did not complete (DNS timeout?)
> 
> However, if I run the following:
> 
>     $ exim -qqff
> 
> then the mail is successfully sent:
> 
>     2003-09-12 15:08:12 Start queue run: pid=2500 -qqff
>     2003-09-12 15:08:13 HL47SO-00014S-5P => jason.tishler@foo.com R=send_to_gateway T=remote_smtp H=smtp.foo.com [XX.XX.XX.XX]
>     2003-09-12 15:08:13 HL47SO-00014S-5P Completed
>     2003-09-12 15:08:13 End queue run: pid=2500 -qqff
> 
> I can also workaround the problem by creating an /etc/resolv.conf file.
> 
> Any ideas on how to further debug this problem?

Yes, run exim with the resolver debug flag set, exim -d+resolver ......

Pierre

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12 20:35 Jason Tishler
2003-09-12 20:45 ` Pierre A. Humblet [this message]
2003-09-12 21:07   ` Jason Tishler
2003-09-12 21:31     ` Pierre A. Humblet
2003-09-26 11:55       ` Jason Tishler

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