From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 13:16:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2CF37B404 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2FLHnI96644; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:17:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:17:49 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Todd Reed Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 Email Servers behind firewall can't ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Todd Reed wrote: > I've got two email servers (Exchange & Sendmail) behind a firewall. > They can both send and receive email from the outside world, however, > They will not send to each other. We have an internal DNS server > (BIND) and I was thinking about placing a MX record, but I'm afraid > that it may affect the MX records on the external DNS. It will not affect external DNS requests as long as the internal server is not being queried from the outside. > The firewall > does the NAT/PAT translations. I know the firewall is the problem, > but I'm not sure how to solve it. The to email servers are using a > different domains to ( mail.domain.com & imail.domain.com). Has > anybody had this issue before or could give some suggestions? I would setup a MX record in your internal nameserver to point the internal machines to the internal address of the mail server(s) like you mentioned above. Nick Rogness - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message