Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 13:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "Daniel R. Auman" <drauman@siscom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail and ServerName in Apache Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990307131046.16938B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <000701be6847$c5dfd560$3104fbd1@auman1>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE681D.DBAAD9A0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990307131046.16938D@java.dpcsys.com> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Daniel R. Auman wrote: > Try to keep this simple. FreeBSD 3.1-Stable. Apache 1.3.4 with PHP. > Default configuations. I've changed nothing but, I did have to add the > computer name "auman" and domain name "state.oh.us" during install. > > Apache complains about ServerName directive and won't start. Our > organization relies on the a state network for DNS and they haven't > processed our requests for DNS entries. Can/Should I set the ServerName > directive? When the state finally gets around to our request will it start > then? You can set ServerName and Apache will then start. Won't hurt when the DNS is finally updated. > Sendmail program. A smtp client can use sendmail to get mail to the > Internet. It gets returned refused do to no relaying by a machine in the > receiving domain. I'd guess that the message is misleading and you are being rejected because the server can't resolve your IP address to a name. It's a pretty common restriction these days. > For example, I'm sending to drauman@siscom.net and > xxxx.siscom.net refuses to handle the message. Can sendmail send > "end-to-end" at least that's what I've heard it called. If you know the actual hostname and that host is running sendmail and that host does not have an MX record pointing to a different machine then, yes, you can send end to end. The receiving site knows more about their network than you do though. Use their MX records to have mail processed in what *they* percieve to be the most efficient manner. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE681D.DBAAD9A0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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