resolve problems

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7u3cm6$brc$1 at nntp5.atl.mindspring.net>,
zippy the chimp <zippy at banana.com> wrote:
>I am experiencing trouble with DNS/possibly sendmail.
>
>the best way to describe it, is that we have a name.com address.
>
>when user at name.com sends mail it gets returned by the remote host
>saying that "Sender Domain Must resolve" and others are having trouble
>sending mail to us.
>
>when i do a nslookup up host1.name.com it resolves fine, but when i do
>a nslookup on name.com it returns nothing, what would you guess i
>need to change.

You need to create an A or MX record for name.com.  Entries for
<host>.domain.com are irrelevant, since they don't appear in the sender
address.

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