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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mailq reports nameserver timeout but DNS not running. Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:39:12 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4erbu0$rvi@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <4eo15k$2rq@maureen.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Blake Swensen (nailers@teleport.com) wrote: : Mail sent from user@china_cat to user@phil is received by phil but remains in : the queue awaiting the nameserver. Mail from user@phil to user@china_cat has : the same result. Mail sent from root@phil to user@phil is delivered properly, : however mail from user@phil to root@phil is being held in the queue. : Any help on this one? Edit the /etc/host.conf so that hosts comes before bind. That should fix things. Lee C. at school -- ***********http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~cremeans***** *Lee Cremeans * hcremean@vt.edu *CS major--Virginia Tech * cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (preferred) ***********TeamOS/2--FreeBSD--UNIX--Macintosh*****