josh@saba.cayman.com (Josh Littlefield) (11/04/90)
Has anyone else noticed that Sun 4.1's sendmail.mx doesn't actually deal with MX records? All it seems to do is use the resolver instead of YP, but it only seems to deal with A records, not MX. We've retrofitted an older sendmail.mx (4.0.3?) to get around this. We also noticed this in the "patched" version of sendmail.mx I grabbed from somewhere last year to fix a domain macro bug. Am I just missing something in the setup? This seems like the kind of bug people would tend to notice. -josh -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Josh Littlefield Cayman Systems, Inc. University Park at MIT josh@cayman.com 26 Landsdowne Street (617) 494-1999 Cambridge, MA 02139 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sblair@synoptics.com (Steven Blair) (11/04/90)
Sun's 4.1 sendmail.mx can only deal with 1 or 2 deep MX(at best), and 4.0.3 has the same problem. If you wish to get a hold of the Berkeley version, with a few enhancements, you can anon ftp it from us, at 134.177.32.116 in ~ftp's directory. There's no warranties, but we use it on our gateways, as trying to deal with other companies' DNS, and mail "designs" get a bit bothersome all the time. -- Steven C. Blair Network Operations Center SynOptics Communications Inc. Mountain View, California INTERNET: sblair@synoptics.com sblair@excalibur.synoptics.com PROBLEMS/EMAIL: HOSTMASTER@SYNOPTICS.COM postmaster@synoptics.com ****Bring Back the USENET/ARPA/INET Moderated Backbone, now!!****
marka@dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mark Andrews) (11/06/90)
In article <JOSH.90Nov3130909@saba.cayman.com> josh@saba.cayman.com (Josh Littlefield) writes: |Has anyone else noticed that Sun 4.1's sendmail.mx doesn't actually |deal with MX records? All it seems to do is use the resolver instead |of YP, but it only seems to deal with A records, not MX. We've |retrofitted an older sendmail.mx (4.0.3?) to get around this. We also |noticed this in the "patched" version of sendmail.mx I grabbed from |somewhere last year to fix a domain macro bug. | |Am I just missing something in the setup? This seems like the kind of |bug people would tend to notice. | |-josh Sun compiled the 4.1 sendmail.mx with NOMXWILDCARD defined. This is most probably what you are being caught by. to get around this add a period after the fully qualified hostname in rulset zero. i.e. R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp $@ $2. $: $1@$2$3 The other solution is to get rid of the wildcard mx record for *.cayman.com. Sun do have an alternative version of sendmail.mx that you can get with this turned off, but they don't garentee to continue suppling such a version. Mark.