On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Tim Rightnour wrote:
[snip]
> Each machine fails to deliver mail with:
> 
> Nov 28 10:12:49 garbled sendmail[5281]: VAA02513: to=root@alpha, ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=12:32:50, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp,
> relay=alpha.futureone.com., stat=Deferred: Name server: alpha.futureone.com.:
> host name lookup failure
> 
> It looks to me like its actually trying to use the destination host as the name
> server.. why the heck would it do something silly like that??  
[snip]

Just a thought: are you trying to use one of the machines as your default
gateway?  Check your routing setup (netstat -r).

Geoff
daemond@ibm.net