Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:38:54 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Jerod Prothe <jprothe@usd217.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail malady - dns/postfix Message-ID: <4315CF0E.2020707@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <4315C67B.9020907@usd217.org> References: <4315C67B.9020907@usd217.org>
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Jerod Prothe wrote: > Greetings all, > On my network, we used to have some NT box acting as the mail exchanger > and a faulty dns for our domain. That box has nearly crumbled. It's > still active, but no longer accepting mail. I set up a computer (called > galley) with 5.4 and it is (supposedly) running authoritative dns for > our domain, and is handling mail via postfix. Since I changed the dns, > I alerted our registrar, which was originally doing lookups for us. > The problem is, now local citizens are trying to send mail to us, but > they are getting bounce messages reporting that it couldn't talk to > otto, the old NT box. [config snipped] > There may be more at stake here: If this doesn't work well, then any > credibility that I have with my employer concerning using open-source > may be exhausted. Any other conf's I should show? At a glance (not thorough inspection) your config looked OK. Expire time of 100 days seems a bit long. When I nslookup MX for your domain, I get the addr of your new server "galley", so no apparent problem there (although I see from a follow-up post that some folks are getting MX = otto, and *that* is your problem in a nutshell). If otto is no longer providing any services to the outside world, how about just indicating via DNS that otto is CNAME to galley? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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