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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:17:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Jim King <king@sstar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail oddity?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991104091440.7151C-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991104101123.022e0ea0@mail.sstar.com>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jim King wrote:
> No can do, because it's not in sendmail.cw.

It may not be in sendmail.cw but it is in class w.  By default sendmail
adds all the IP addresses bound to your enet interfaces to class w.

Uncomment 
    #O DontProbeInterfaces 
in /etc/sendmail.cf

Dan
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 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

> 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)?



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