Sendmail & Bind Problem

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sat Jul 17 08:37:20 UTC 2004


Wayne Stewart <wayne.stewart at clerkware.ca> wrote:
> We have set up a simple domain.
> "ourcompany.ca"

> The nameserver for is 

> "nameserver.ourcompany.ca"

> If we run "dig nameserver" the process fails.
> If we run "dig nameserver.ourcompany.ca" it succeeds.

> We are having a problem with 'sendmail' because the 'smarthost' mailserver is also "nameserver" and sendmail reports a DNS failure for "relay=nameserver"

> How can we get named to respond to queries on the local subnet when the fully qualified domain name is not supplied?

I think you should use fully qualified names in sendmail's config. In addition there is
the group "comp.mail.sendmail" where sendmail is better discussed.




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