jls2@spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner) (08/11/90)
I'm working with a sendmail setup on a DECstation 3100 with Ultrix directly on the Internet, getting the kinks taken care of. Most everything works, except the new geographic-domain-based machines. How can I get sites like "well.sf.ca.us" and "mtdiablo.concord.ca.us" to be recognized? In these two specific cases, I know they are machines that are "one hop off" Internet, with UUCP connections to the net, so not getting a response from "nslookup" isn't surprising... However, they have MX records on their Internet hosts. In a sense, what I'm asking is more general: how can I get my sendmail to correctly know where to deliver mail for machines that only exist as MX records on Internet (they're "just off" Internet)? -- ====== Jeff L. Stoner === Boulder, Colo. ============ /\ = /\ ========== | Work: jls2 @ ellery.esi.com /\ / \ / /\ /\ --*-- Home: @boulder.colorado.edu:bearhug!jls2 /\/ \/ / / \/ /\ | News: jls2 @ ursa-major.spdcc.com /\/ \ \ /\ / \ /\
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (09/24/90)
In article <3572@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> jls2@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner) writes: >In a sense, what I'm asking is more general: how can I get my sendmail >to correctly know where to deliver mail for machines that only exist >as MX records on Internet (they're "just off" Internet)? > This question keeps coming up. The answer is simple. You need a version of sendmail which can read MX records. Many systems come with both 'sendmail' and 'sendmail.mx'. If you have both, then: mv sendmail sendmail.nonmx;ln sendmail.mx sendmail If you don't have a version which reads MX records, get one. They are available on many ftp sites. If you are inexperienced and don't want to try this just yet, configure your 'sendmail' to forward most mail to a host which can read MX records and deliver the mail for you. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940