[PLUG] Sendmail and DNS checks

Keith Nasman keith at ahapala.net
Wed Mar 17 15:59:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:50:01PM -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Keith Nasman wrote:
> 
> > when I run host www.xxx.yyy.zzz on the server I get:
> > zzz.yyy.xxx.www.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
> > gw.domain.com.zzz.yyy.xxx.www.in-addr.arpa.
> >
> > and on another machine I get:
> > zzz.yyy.xxx.www.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
> > name.dsl.pdx.spiretech.com.
> 
> The response you get on the server is incorrect, and almost certainly
> the source of your problems. Unless you're running a split-personality
> BIND and Mike R. suggested, the responses should be identical.
> Something is amiss with the DNS setup on the server.

Arrghh! It turns out the client on the LAN was sending it's outbound
mail to the EXTERNAL address. Now it is pointed at 192.168.1.254 and
all is well.

I'll continue to look into the DNS configuration.

Thanks,
Keith




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