>From looking at your log, it appears that paige doesn't have its domain 
name set, only the host name.

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Lt Avram Dorfman wrote:

> Ok, I guess there's two ways I can phrase this question:
> 
> 1) Is there anything "obvious" you have to do on NetBSD to get sendmail 
> working properly?
> 
> or,
> 
> 2) Can someone look at this mail bounce that went to root on my NetBSD 
> machine, and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Here's the scenario: This mail was send from a machine where I work 
> (where sendmail is "known" to work), to my bsd machine. It was sent to 
> "dorfman@paige.est.org." Paige is my bsd machine. She also happens to be 
> authorotative for est.org, and there is an mx record for paige pointing 
> to herself.
> 
> Paige is behind a 28.8 dial-in line, if that matters. I'm pretty sure 
> that everything is fine IP- and DNS-wise. I "don't know jack" about 
> sendmail though. What I don't get is, this message indicates that it 
> failed in looking up "paige.est.org" and "hq.hq.af.mil." Both are 
> properly registered. Further, I don't understand why it is looking either 
> of them up - the damn message is already on my machine. Alas, it never 
> gets to the user account though.
> 
> Please, if you can help, remember, I really don't know sendmail. Pretend 
> like you're tyring to explain ":%s/^\([^ ]*\) */\1\t/" to someone who has 
> never heard of a "regular expression."
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -Avram
> 
> >From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Sep  2 23:58:34 1996
> Received: from localhost (localhost) by paige (8.6.12/8.6.12) with 
> internal id X
> AA00841; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:32 -0700
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:32 -0700
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: hq.hq.af.mil.: host 
> not found
> )
> Message-Id: <199609030658.XAA00841@paige>
> To: postmaster
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="XAA00841.841733913/paige"
> Status: R
> 
> This is a MIME-encapsulated message
> 
> --XAA00841.841733913/paige
> 
> The original message was received at Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:32 -0700
> from localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
> <dorfman@hq.af.mil>  (unrecoverable error)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 <dorfman@hq.af.mil>... Host unknown (Name server: hq.hq.af.mil.: host 
> not fo
> und)
> 
>    ----- Original message follows -----
> 
> --XAA00841.841733913/paige
> Content-Type: message/rfc822
> 
> Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON
> Received: from localhost (localhost) by paige (8.6.12/8.6.12) with 
> internal id X
> AA00839; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:32 -0700
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:32 -0700
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: paige.est.org.: host 
> not foun
> d)
> Message-Id: <199609030658.XAA00839@paige>
> To: <dorfman@hq.af.mil>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="XAA00839.841733912/paige"
> 
> This is a MIME-encapsulated message
> 
> --XAA00839.841733912/paige
> 
> The original message was received at Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:27 -0700
> from [134.205.123.148]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
> <dorfman@paige.est.org>  (unrecoverable error)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 <dorfman@paige.est.org>... Host unknown (Name server: paige.est.org.: 
> host n
> ot found)
> 
>    ----- Original message follows -----
> 
> --XAA00839.841733912/paige
> Content-Type: message/rfc822
> 
> Return-Path: dorfman@hq.af.mil
> Received: from hq.hq.af.mil ([134.205.123.148]) by paige (8.6.12/8.6.12) 
> with ES
> MTP id XAA00837 for <dorfman@paige.est.org>; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:58:27 -0700
> Received: from hq (hq.hq.af.mil [134.205.123.148]) by hq.hq.af.mil 
> (8.7.5/8.7.3)
>  with ESMTP id XAA13741 for dorfman@paige.est.org; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 
> 23:59:40 -040
> 0 (EDT)
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Lt Avram Dorfman <dorfman@hq.af.mil>
> Message-Id: <199609030359.XAA13741@hq.hq.af.mil>
> Apparently-To: <dorfman@paige.est.org>
> 
> hello from hq, direct telnet
> 
> --XAA00839.841733912/paige--
> 
> 
> --XAA00841.841733913/paige--
> 
> 
> 
>