email from zimbra@localhost.localdomain

[tstrimp]

I am getting quite a bit of email from zimbra@localhost.localdomain and it's going into the deferred queue because the lookup on localhost.localdomain is coming up with an incorrect address.

[root@zimbra zimbra]# nslookup localhost.localdomain
Server: 192.168.254.30
Address: 192.168.254.30#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: localhost.localdomain
Address: 208.67.219.40

It's trying to use 208.67.219.40 to send the email. Could anyone tell me what it's using the wrong ip address for localhost.localdomain and can I set it somewhere in the zimbra config? 192.168.254.30 isn't right either but that's something I could work with at least.

[jholder]

run a zmlocalconfig | grep localhost.localdomain

to see what's goin on.

john

[tstrimp]

mysql_bind_address = localhost
zimbra_zmprov_default_soap_server = localhost

are the only ones that come up for localhost.

I've looked through the server config as well and it'd much the same. Nothing regarding localhost.localdomain.

[phoenix]

What's in your /etc/hosts file? Your nslook should only return the IP of the loopback adapter - 127.0.0.1. Are you using a split-DNS with your set-up?

[tstrimp]

Nope, no split DNS. I've got an internal DNS server that is running on the .30 address above. The zimbra server is running on .32.

[root@zimbra ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost zimbra.collectivedata.local zimbra

[phoenix]

Nope, no split DNS. I've got an internal DNS server that is running on the .30 address above. The zimbra server is running on .32.

[root@zimbra ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost zimbra.collectivedata.local zimbra

That /etc/hosts file is wrong, it should be in the format:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 
192.168.x.x zimbra.collectivedata.local zimbra

as outlined in the Zimbra Quick Start guide.

[tstrimp]

That's fixed. nslookup still shows the 208.67.219.40 address as the non-authoratative answer.

[phoenix]

That's fixed. nslookup still shows the 208.67.219.40 address as the non-authoratative answer.

This 'nslookup localhost.localdomain' give you the public IP? Did you reboot?

What does this show?

 host `hostname`

They're backticks in there not single quotes.

[tstrimp]

I'm not familiar with host this so here are the results of the variations I tried.

[root@zimbra ~]# host this `hostname`
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

[root@zimbra ~]# host this `localhost`
-bash: localhost: command not found
this has address 208.67.219.40
Host this not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

[root@zimbra ~]# host this
this has address 208.67.219.40
Host this not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

[phoenix]

My mistake, I don't know how I managed to make a mess of that command. I've edited the command above try again with the format above.