Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:30:04 -0500 From: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trouble with sendmail on a new host. Message-ID: <TCPSMTP.17.11.18.-16.30.4.3047923923.5780@bbs.dcoisp.net>
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Hello again to all. I am encountering a really strange problem, and it may be that I am missing an obvious step. Today, I just added a host to my domain: media.dcoisp.net. It is a freeBSD 2.2.5-realease box. It is running sendmail. The sendmail came with the freebsd distribution. I have successfully added the entry to my dns files, IE, the IN A records and the PTR records. Unfortunately, no remote email is getting through to this host. Local email is delivered just fine, but not remote email. I have made no changes to the sendmail.cf file or any of that since installing the software. My question is: Does there need to be an mx record in my database files for named? I wouldn't think so, since none of my other machines have mx records, and the two machines that are freebsd boxes send and receivve mail without a hitch. Here is another question. Back when I started my hole network, my isp was taking care of dns issues for me, as well as internic related issues. I have read some internic faqs and the like, and I didn't get the idea that I have to register a new host each time I add one to my network right? Only if I was making this host a nameserver would I have to register the host with the internic? The error that gets generated by the remote mailer on the remote machine is: illegal host domain found. Anyone have any ideas? Like I was saying, all the other freebsd boxes work as they should, just not this new host. Thanks. Jeremy
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