Messages Stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Kevin Miller]

In a nutshell, a lame server is where someone's DNS has a domain listed, but
there's no info on it.  In other words, a parent DNS server says that some
other server is authoritative for a domain, but the other server doesn't
exist (or is off line).  Although they fill up *your* logs, the problem is
actually at some other site.  The errors occur when you try to contact them.

At least that's my meager understanding...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
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-----Original Message-----
From: lester lasad [mailto:llasad1 at YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:35 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Messages Stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in


My mail started getting stuck again late afternoon yesterday. This has
happened before, but stopping and starting mailscanner a bunch of times did
not work this time.
I saw the previous post where spamassassin was causing the issue.
-I'm already on 2.60.
-I tried upgrading top 2.61 but keep getting an error: Makefile:94: ***
missing separator. Stop.
-I rebuilt the baye db with sa-learn --rebuild
Still no go. I upgraded MailScanner to the latest.
Here's what I get in my messages log:
Dec 18 09:05:06 sammy last message repeated 4 times
Dec 18 09:08:14 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'70.62.6.69.in-addr.arpa' (in '62.6.69.in-addr.arpa'?): 69.6.25.84#53
Dec 18 09:08:15 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'70.62.6.69.in-addr.arpa' (in '62.6.69.in-addr.arpa'?): 69.6.25.125#53
Dec 18 09:08:31 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'162.180.156.161.in-addr.arpa' (in '156.161.in-addr.arpa'?): 206.74.254.2#53
Dec 18 09:08:31 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'162.180.156.161.in-addr.arpa' (in '156.161.in-addr.arpa'?):
206.74.254.10#53
Dec 18 09:09:16 sammy MailScanner: succeeded
Dec 18 09:09:18 sammy last message repeated 2 times
Dec 18 09:10:45 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'132.34.52.157.in-addr.arpa' (in '52.157.in-addr.arpa'?): 157.33.227.3#53
Dec 18 09:10:45 sammy named[981]: lame server resolving
'132.34.52.157.in-addr.arpa' (in '52.157.in-addr.arpa'?): 157.33.227.4#53
Dec 18 09:11:12 sammy MailScanner: MailScanner -15 succeeded
Dec 18 09:11:12 sammy MailScanner: succeeded
Is my problem something with DNS? If so, what generally causes lame server
resolving messages?
Thanks,
James


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