Subject: Re: Sendmail help
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 13:04:01 MDT
I did watch out for that, and that's not the problem...I am tending
to thing it's the way sendmail is configured. Also, what's the
difference between:
ns.domain.com. IN A ip
and
ns.domain.com. A ip
Does the IN play a significant role?
--Brian
>On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Brian Watson wrote:
>
>> Whenever I try to send messages via sendmail they keep getting bounced
>> back. The message includes dns.majuki.com.majuki.com, but that is
>> incorrect. I have the MX record as mail.majuki.com, but I want to
>> just be able to send to user@majuki.com and have it be delivered to
>> the right place. What isn't setup correctly that would be resulting
>> in the dns.majuki.com.majuki.com error? I've checked the DNS records,
>> and they seem fine.
>
>domain-doubling at the end of a hostname in DNS is almost always the
>result of not putting a terminating "." at the end of the hostname.
>
>You probably have:
>
>dns.majuki.com IN A ip.ad.dr.ess
>
>But should have either:
>
>dns.majuki.com. IN A ip.ad.dr.ess
>
>or
>
>dns IN A ip.ad.dr.ess
>
>(or something similar).
>
>Does that help? That might be confusing sendmail a bit. Or I could be
>completely off. :-)
>
>--
>Charlie Watts
>cewatts@frontier.net
>Frontier Internet, Inc.
>http://www.frontier.net/
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