Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:54:16 -0500 From: "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mail Exchanger - help Message-ID: <006101c44424$6543cc70$0701a8c0@darryl>
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Greetings, I have a LAN that is on private IP. It is nat'd to the internet. The internal LAN domain name is registered. Our ISP just forwards the osborneindustries.com domain name to our other registered domain name. In an effort to replace our internal msmail (Yuk!), I have setup a test server running Freebsd 5.1-release. It has qmail installed on it and configured as per lifewith qmail. It passes all the tests as defined in lifewithqmail. I have another server (HP9000, running HPUX) that has djbdns (tinydns, dnscache, etc) setup and servicing my LAN. internal host names are resolved just fine. When (from outlook) I try to send email to user@osborneindustries.com, the mail gets sent out to our ISP. I have outlook configured properly with a service for the osborneindustries.com. I have created a mx record on the HP. I ran the following: # ./dnsmx osborneindustries.com 0 goober.mx.osborneindustries.com on the qmail server I ran: mail# dnsquery -t mx osborneindustries.com ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1241 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; osborneindustries.com, type = MX, class = IN osborneindustries.com. 23h51m37s IN MX 0 goober.mx.osborneindustries.com. both seem to see the mx record. Seems that qmail can't find it though. what do I need to set/fix to get qmail to find the mx record ? the resolv.conf on the qmail server has: domain osborneindustries.com nameserver 192.168.1.1 any ideas would be great. BTW, outside users (on the internet) do not use our internal dns server to resolve addresses. thanks, Darryl
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