Hi,
I am running Redhat 9 and the latest version of sendmail on PC on my local DSL LAN.

Sendmail refuses to work for me.

When I try and send email from the command line I get the following in the mailq

[root@linux2 mail]# sendmail -v -d8.32 -qI | more

Running /var/spool/mqueue/hB9AJhKp005430 (sequence 1 of 300)
dns_getcanonname(cpfc.org, trymx=1)
dns_getcanonname: trying cpfc.org. (AAAA)
NO: errno=110, h_errno=2
cpfc.org: Name server timeout
dave@cpfc.org... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
Obviously my DNS is set up on my external domain @ cpfc.org but Sendmail can't resolve it.

The machine can resolve all DNS quite happily

dig cpfc.org aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> cpfc.org aaaa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOTIMP, id: 42518
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cpfc.org. IN AAAA

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.138#53(10.0.0.138)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 9 14:30:46 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 26
Thanks

Dave