From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 02:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA24724 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA24715 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07576; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <3529F218.FDA0E5D6@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 02:30:00 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0325 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul MacKenzie CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Domain name problem: DNS & Sendmail?? References: <199804062015.QAA00398@server.elehost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul MacKenzie wrote: > > Hello, > > small problem.. > > when I send mail to xxx@server.FQDN.com it works.. > > when I send mail to xxx@FQDN.com it doesnt.. > > I have (apart from spending hours of work) > > 1) set up masquerading properly within sendmail > > tested by simple pinging... ie.. > > ping fqdn.com (it works when I manually send mail within my network) > > I get the following.. ping: cannot resolve FQDN.com: Unknown host > > yet there are no problems with www.FQDN.com, ftp.FQDN.com, etc... > > Thus, all mail is refused.. > > Any help with this (dns?) problem would be appreciated You don't seem to have any records (either A or MX) for FQDN.com. If you think you do and that they should be working, try sending us the real domain name so we can check for ourselves. If it's a totally internal zone (no access to the internet at all) then do this and mail it back: dig @your.internal.nameserver whateverFQDNreallyis.com any Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message