[PLUG] Sendmail and DNS checks

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:45:05PM -0800, Keith Nasman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:16:36PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > Are you using Bind's split dns feature?  The LAN (i.e. not NATed)
> > address of mail.domain.com isn't what would show up for external
> > sites.
> 
> Having just looked up what split dns is, I'd say not. the named.conf
> file just has a few zone sections, nothing fancy.

So when sendmail askes for the IP address associated with mail.domain.com
it receives the external world address.  Yet the connection is coming from
your internal address.

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