[CLUE-Tech] SMTPD help?

ian iguy at ionsphere.org
Thu Mar 8 14:17:17 MST 2001


Tim,

Now in your /var/spool/smtpd you do have an etc directory which is where
the resolv.conf & hosts.. are located?

This is of course just a starter question.

ian

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:13:26PM -0700, Tim Russell wrote:
> Is anyone using the Obtuse SMTPD email proxy?  I recently installed it and
> have it in a chroot'ed jail in /var/spool/smtpd.  The smtpd is complaining
> that it can't do reverse lookups on incoming hosts, which is ticking me off.
> 
> This is based on RH 7.0, and in the /etc in the jail, I have hosts,
> host.conf, resolv.conf and localtime.  The host.conf file just has "order
> hosts,bind", the hosts file has a line for an internal host, which /is/
> being picked up, but DNS reverse lookups are failing.  resolv.conf has two
> Internet nameservers in it, and when I do an "nslookup <ipaddress>" on the
> system, reverse lookups work, just not in the chroot jail.
> 
> Can anyone think of anything else I need in there to make libresolv happy?
> I'd appreciate any help.
> 
> Tim Russell
> Solution Architect
> Interlink Group Incorporated
> tim.russell at ilg.com
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