[Gllug] flushing dns cache

SteveC steve at fractalus.com
Mon Oct 28 16:43:39 UTC 2002


* Adam Bower (adam.bower at framestore-cfc.com) wrote:
> SteveC wrote:
> >i hope this is a really stoopid question - i have a debian box that won't 
> >deliver mail. exim says example.com is unroutable for mail but my three 
> >other debian boxes like it just fine, and they are hanging off the same 
> >dns server. it can ping it etc. example.com did have some dns problems 
> >last week but is fine now. i tried rebooting [ugh] but no luck.
> >
> >anyway, ideas?
> 
> Do you mean *the* example.com? or another domain? As I can't find any MX 
> records for example.com (using sam spade because i can't do it with a 
> real tool due to firewalling here)
> 
> If you mean something else then ignore me, if not perhaps the other 3 
> Debian boxen are wrong and the 1 is right?

ok i meant fractalus.com. logs:

computer:/home/steve# tail /var/log/exim/mainlog
2002-10-28 17:23:01 186BP3-0004CT-00 Unfrozen by auto-thaw
2002-10-28 17:23:01 186BP3-0004CT-00 ** steve at fractalus.com 
<steve at computer.somehwere.com>: unrouteable mail domain "fractalus.com"
2002-10-28 17:23:01 186BP3-0004CT-00 Frozen (delivery error message)
2002-10-28 17:23:01 186Byy-00006S-00 Message is frozen
2002-10-28 17:23:01 186CL7-0000Aq-00 Message is frozen
2002-10-28 17:23:01 End queue run: pid=1052

and yet my other boxes can mail it fine... ugh!

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/

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