admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) (02/28/90)
Apologies if you have seen likes of this message on the unix-nrs list a few days back. I am using Ida sendmail and uk sendmail 2.1 configutaion scripts. I quite like to put all the NRS domain table info in ida (dbm) format. However I cant seem to convince the cnrs program to generate a list of all nrs sites in mail context. In non ida option of sendmail 2.1 only domains down to 3 level are required i.e. uk.ac.exeter uk.ac.man etc If you then send a mail to uk.ac.man.cs then that will work correctly. However, if I select the ida option with the same table then uk.ac.man will work but uk.ac.man.cs will not since it appears that with ida option the rules look for explicit entry in the domain tables. Piete Brooks and I have talked about it and we would like someone with the knowledge of how the ida option in sendmail 2.1 works to tell us more. Can the output procuded by the current cnrs (3.6) be used as input to domain tables for sendmail 2.1 with ida option? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Khalid Sattar JANET : admin@uk.ac.exeter.cs Computer Science Dept. UUCP : admin@expya.uucp University of Exeter BITNET : admin%uk.ac.exeter.cs@ukacrl Exeter, UK. Tel : +44 392 264062
jac@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jim Crammond) (02/28/90)
IDA tables require exact matches as you have already determined, so for ida sendmail a complete list of mail entities can be produced. The format of these tables are basically the same as other uk-sendmail tables i.e. <LHS><space><RHS>. Domain tables use little-endian format and will map short to long or long to short names as you wish; the janet channel table uses big-endian format. The RHS is the host or application relay to send this host's mail to. I don't know whether the existing c-nrs can produce this - I suspect that if it does not then people may have been producing mmdf tables and converting the ":" field separator into a space. Anyone like to confirm/refute this? -Jim.