From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 14:42:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 2D4AA16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E4A43D5C for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id hBLMgDSw005177 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id hBLMgDiX079316; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:42:12 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20031221224212.GA79281@tao.thought.org> References: <20031221204900.GA78888@tao.thought.org> <20031221221124.GA8291@users.munk.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031221221124.GA8291@users.munk.nu> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: DNS || sendmail? (or both?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:42:17 -0000 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:11:24PM +0000, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:49:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Anybody know what magic incantations are necessary to make > > my mail server aware of my internal hosts?? If this is a > > DNS matter, I didn't catch it in DNS AND BIND (4th ed). > Try adding all the hosts you accept mail for to your local-host-names > file - usually /etc/mail/local-host-names by default - check the line > starting 'Fw-o' in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Ok, in local-host-names I've already got: ^ethic ^foobar ^plato ^tao neatly packed in. Just the local host names. (Gee!) > > MX records should also be setup for each domain you want to accept > mail for. Perhaps paste the DNS entries for the domains you're having > trouble with if you still can't get it to work. > Here is what I *had*, last attempt: thought.org. IN MX 1 ethic.thought.org thought.org. IN MX 1 foobar.thought.org thought.org. IN MX 1 plato.thought.org thought.org. IN MX 5 tao.thought.org. Do I need to list my internal IP's in the "IN A" address records? ethic is 10.244, tao is 10.247, &c. gary > -- > Jez Hancock > - System Administrator / PHP Developer > > http://munk.nu/ > http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - personal weblog > http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix