From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 23 11:33:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27828 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27823 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) From: mike@seidata.com Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11857; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:33:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:33:32 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG cc: mike@seidata.com Subject: Sendmail Config ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Here's my setup... domain.com is hosted by remoteserver.com, ns1.remoteserver.com provides authoritative DNS services for domain.com and contains a MX of mx.domain.com for handling all of domain.com's mail, The owner of domain.com wants to host his website on my server, localserver.com as www.domain.com, I 'mirrored' (zone transfers not allowed, of course) the DNS records of ns1.remoteserver.com (they faxed their records to me) and they, in turn, mirrored the 'www.domain.com' entry which maps to one of my IPs, In my DNS records, I setup the 'MX' entry to point to their mx.domain.com, Their site/domain now works perfectly, but SMTP is not quite there... What happens is that email sent to user@domain.com from my server immediately comes back with a 'user unknown' message, as if my server is attempting to find 'user' locally rather than realizing that domain.com is remote and it needs to route the mail to the remote mx. I don't think it's DNS, but a sendmail misconfig on my part... Something's making the mailer client on the SMTP server think the domain is local when it isn't... Here's what I have for DNS: [soa stuff] IN NS ns1.localserver.com. IN NS ns1.remoteserver.com. IN MX 10 mx.domain.com. domain.com. IN A 1.1.1.7 mx IN A 1.1.1.2 www IN A 2.2.2.1 'domain.com' and 'mx.domain.com' map to remoteserver.com's namespace (mirrored axactly), and only 'www.domain.com' maps to my namespace (mirrored by ns1.remoteserver.com). The Bat book doesn't say anything special about off-site MX hosts, but it does say a *lot* that I'm not familiar with concerning sendmail-specific configuration... I'll keep reading, but if anyone can enlighten me re: a proper setup, it'd be much appreciated. :) Happy Holidays... -- Mike Hoskins System/Network Administrator SEI Data Network Services, Inc. http://www.seidata.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message