ADMINSYS@LIBRARY.SHEFFIELD-CITY-POLY.AC.UK (Dave Haywood) (04/30/91)
Dear all,
I don't seem to be able to configure sendmail to do what I want:
We have a sun which we would like to act as a site mail hub. We would like it
to recognise its own address as SCP.AC.UK. We would also like it to recognise
its own name as ASH.SCP.AC.UK. We have some local hosts on ethernet but we
also have two hosts which can only be reached on X25.
JANET
|
vmt.scp.ac.uk-----x25---|----x25------- lib.scp.ac.uk
|
x25
|
ash.scp.ac.uk
(gateway)
|
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ether-hosts ether-hosts
So far, we seem to have mail to SCP.AC.UK and ASH.SCP.AC.UK and our local
ethernet hosts working fine. The problem is in getting ASH to relay mail to
the X.25 hosts via JANET.
Using the -bt test option, sendmail rejects mail to LIB.SCP.AC.UK (an X25 only
host) with "local domain unknown" since it is not in the ether channel file.
If we remove SCP.AC.UK from the local channel file, then all our local hosts
(both ether and X25) seem to be accessible, but the hub no longer recognises
itself as SCP.AC.UK, and attempts to forward such mail to the janet channel.
Is there a way around this, or am I attempting to combine two mutually
exclusive options?
One further problem:
We kept getting problems with addresses being expanded when they should not :-
eg UK.AC.NRS was expanded to UK.AC.NRS.AC.UK. This problem did not occur when
we used the example tables provided in the package (glasgow's tables). The
crucial line seems to be
uk ean-relay.ac.uk
in the top.dom file. When I added this line to our tables, the problem went
away, and UK.AC.NRS was not expanded to UK.AC.NRS.AC.UK. However, the
ean-relay does not seem to appear in the final fqdn. Why is line necessary if
the relay is not used?
Please reply direct - I'm not on the list.
Thanks, Roderick Douglas / Dave Haywood.
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| Telex: 54680 SHPOLY GAndrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) (04/30/91)
|We have a sun which we would like to act as a site mail hub. We would like it |to recognise its own address as SCP.AC.UK. We would also like it to recognise |its own name as ASH.SCP.AC.UK. We have some local hosts on ethernet but we |also have two hosts which can only be reached on X25. |So far, we seem to have mail to SCP.AC.UK and ASH.SCP.AC.UK and our local |ethernet hosts working fine. The problem is in getting ASH to relay mail to |the X.25 hosts via JANET. [ I do not use UK-2.1 so this may be miles off - this is experience from UK-1.4++ ] You probably need to list your two X.25-only hosts explicitly in <machine>.janet.chn: uk.ac.scp.odd1 uk.ac.scp.odd1 uk.ac.scp.odd2 uk.ac.scp.odd2 Andrew -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------