From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 15:42:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FE416A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:42:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0EC443D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:42:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7VFgHG1040678; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:42:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4315CF0E.2020707@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:38:54 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerod Prothe References: <4315C67B.9020907@usd217.org> In-Reply-To: <4315C67B.9020907@usd217.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail malady - dns/postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0000 Jerod Prothe wrote: > Greetings all, > On my network, we used to have some NT box acting as the mail exchanger > and a faulty dns for our domain. That box has nearly crumbled. It's > still active, but no longer accepting mail. I set up a computer (called > galley) with 5.4 and it is (supposedly) running authoritative dns for > our domain, and is handling mail via postfix. Since I changed the dns, > I alerted our registrar, which was originally doing lookups for us. > The problem is, now local citizens are trying to send mail to us, but > they are getting bounce messages reporting that it couldn't talk to > otto, the old NT box. [config snipped] > There may be more at stake here: If this doesn't work well, then any > credibility that I have with my employer concerning using open-source > may be exhausted. Any other conf's I should show? At a glance (not thorough inspection) your config looked OK. Expire time of 100 days seems a bit long. When I nslookup MX for your domain, I get the addr of your new server "galley", so no apparent problem there (although I see from a follow-up post that some folks are getting MX = otto, and *that* is your problem in a nutshell). If otto is no longer providing any services to the outside world, how about just indicating via DNS that otto is CNAME to galley? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348