Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:17:57 -0600 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@bellnetworks.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail oddity? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991104101716.02300680@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <039101bf2679$694f5b90$4a99d6d8@netrex.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991104094810.00aec8c0@mail.sstar.com>
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Ah, it looks like the fix is to use sendmail's DontProbeInterfaces option. This makes everything work as I want. Jim At 11:02 PM 11/3/1999 -0500, Jerry Bell wrote: >Remove domain.com from sendmail.cw on the computer hosting www.domain.com. > >Jerry >http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> >To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:52 AM >Subject: sendmail oddity? > > > > I'm hosting a web site, e.g. for www.domain.com. "domain.com"'s DNS has > > been setup with A records for domain.com and www.domain.com that are the > > same IP address. The MX record for domain.com points to mail.domain.com, > > which is another machine. > > > > If I try to send mail from the web server to the user sales@domain.com, > > sendmail tries to deliver the message to the local user sales. It looks > > like it's seeing that domain.com is a local address, so it doesn't bother > > looking for the MX record for domain.com. Is there any way around this > > without changing the DNS setup (which is out of my control)? > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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