From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 20:12:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4BD14CAD for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA16458 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:12:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19991215230917.009e45a0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:12:34 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Subject: DNS Setup Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all, I set up a local (publically accessible) name server, got a friend to do secondary for me, and registered several domains. For some reason, whenever peopel try to send me test messages, they come back as "host unknown". If the same users try to ping my boxen, or use web access to them, they resolve no problem. Only mail comes back as "host unknown". I have sendmail allowed in /etc/hosts.allow. I have mx records in all the name databases. I have O'Reilly's sendmail book on order, and it should be here tomorrow :) Any other places I should start looking? Does DNS have to be expressly permitted in /etc/hosts.allow? This makes no sense since i can be pinged and looked up? Thanks in advance, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message