[comp.mail.sendmail] interaction sendmail/nameserver

uchida@lezvax.oeaw.ac.at (Mark-Rene Uchida) (08/20/90)

Problem with interaction of sendmail.mx and DARPA Internet nameserver

We have a SUN 3/60 running SunOS 4.0.3. The Sun is used as a mailhost for our
domain running the Internet nameserver together with sendmail.mx. For mail
routing, we've some MX-records defined.
When some mail from a subsidiary host is delivered, sendmail uses the 
MX-definitions correctly and forwards the mail to the relay host. However when
mail is coming from the Sun itself, sendmail is trying to resolve the 
full domainname to find the destination address instead of using the 
MX-definition of the nameserver and forwarding the mail to the relay host.
Can anyone give me a hint or better a solution to this problem?

Robert Fritz  A4421dab@awiuni11.bitnet
Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science
University of Vienna