hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) (04/18/89)
host X has two MX records 10 -> host X
20 -> host Y
When X is down, mail for X from all over the Internet queues up on
host Y.
Mail for X, that is, from all over the Internet EXCEPT from host Y.
When Y tries to send mail to X and X's address MXs over to Y...
553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
I would guess that sendmail is smart enough to do the right thing, and
that there is something I haven't configured properly. Any clues?...
thanks...
-Mike Marshall hubcap@hubcap.clemson.eduparmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee) (04/18/89)
In article <5140@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes: > host X has two MX records 10 -> host X > 20 -> host Y > > When X is down, mail for X from all over the Internet queues up on > host Y. [But] When Y tries to send mail to X and X's address MXs > over to Y... > > 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local That little gotcha isn't documented as clearly as it probably should be.... The "w" macro in sendmail.cf must be set to your site's full official internet name (which is also the name that appears on the MX records). If "hostname" on your machine returns something other than the fully-domain-qualified official hostname, you'll have to explicitly set the "w" macro to be the official name. -Larry Parmelee parmelee@cs.cornell.edu
pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore) (03/05/91)
I know that it is frowned upon to put MX records in your name server for domains that you dont have authority for. Ie in the dns for foo.edu. I should not realy do *.bar.fi ................. mail.relay.gate.net. However, given that I have done this, how do I persuade a seconadry server to load the records from my master. I have for the secondary secondary foo.edu 1.2.3.4 db.foo This causes the secondary to only load those resources seen to belong to foo.edu and *.bar.fi doesnt therefore it doesnt load them from 1.2.3.4. Has anybody got an answer to this? -- !---------------------------------------------------------------! ! Paul Moore, Bull HN UK, Maxted Rd,Hemel Hempstead, HP2 7DZ. ! ! Phone:(44) 442 232222 Fax:(44) 442 234084 ! ! pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk "a smile, a song and a core dump" ! !---------------------------------------------------------------!