From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 14:21:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07107 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07074 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA06273; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:21:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA06251; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:21:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id XAA07274; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:14:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601102214.XAA07274@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf question To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:14:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601101945.MAA18558@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 10, 96 12:45:09 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > [longish question deleted] Give your router box a real name, not just the (sub)domain name. Keep this: > rocky.sri.MT.net preference = 0, mail exchanger = rocky.sri.MT.net > rocky.sri.MT.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = sri.MT.net It's ok. Make this: > And, the important DNS stuff for my router box. > sri.MT.net inet address = 204.94.231.129 > sri.MT.net preference = 0, mail exchanger = rocky.sri.MT.net > sri.MT.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = sri.MT.net > rocky.sri.MT.net inet address = 204.182.243.10 look like router IN A 204.94.231.129 IN MX 0 router IN MX 5 rocky This just means that mail addressed directly to router.sri.MT.net will be most preferably delivered to the host itself, or possibly backed up for delivery at rocky (if necessary). and add: sri.MT.net. IN MX 0 rocky IN MX 5 router (You could omit the sri.MT.net. if you place this below the SOA and NS records.) Add Cw sri.MT.net. to rocky's sendmail.cf, so it does accept the mail addressed to the subdomain as its own. Mail addressed to sri.MT.net will be stored at router (on behalf of rocky, i.e. only for later forwarding) if rocky is unreachable, but not further processed. This should get you going. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)