From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 01:19:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA27108 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 01:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts6-141.indigo.ie [194.125.133.141]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA27098 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 01:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA11799; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:10:08 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:01:52 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Sendmail in 2.1.5R not masquerading properly? To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: Priority: Normal Read-Receipt-To: Michael Ryan Delivery-Receipt-To: Michael Ryan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > Problem resolved, someone added a line > > IN CNAME horst > > to the relevant named config file so that our web server would answer to > bfd.com in addition to www.bfd.com (and horst.bfd.com, obviously), which > apparently confused sendmail. Since it isn't related to the FreeBSD > upgrade, I'll take this to the sendmail newsgroup. > > BTW, anyone know the right way to do this? I understand the sentiment, > but I refuse to do it if it means breaking email. > Something like this will get you started: www.bfd.com. IN A a.b.c.d bfd.com. IN A a.b.c.d Use an A record instead of a CNAME record. Mike ---