novice problems with bind named and sendmail

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Feb 4 00:36:04 UTC 2006


	Why have you called your machine "localhost"?


> "Jose.Dr.G at gmail.com" <Jose.Dr.G at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > your telling the sendmail that this 'localhost' is the machine's
> > name.  Try getting rid of this entry...
> >
> > localhost.local.net0.        IN CNAME   chub.local.net0.
> 
> Thanks .. trying that I see no change in what sendmail thinks its
> doing.
> I've done this:  Altered the zone file as shown at the end.
>   Restarted named
>   Restarted sendmail
> 
>  sent mail with  date |mailx -v -s test reader
> some of the smtp output shows this:
>   [...]snip
>   >>> MAIL From:<root at localhost.local.net0> SIZE=55
>   >>> AUTH=root at localhost.local.net0
> 
>   250 2.1.0 <root at localhost.local.net0>... Sender ok
>   >>> RCPT To:<reader at localhost.local.net0>
>   >>> DATA
>   250 2.1.5 <reader at localhost.local.net0>... Recipient ok
>   354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>   >>> .
>   050 <reader at localhost.local.net0>... Connecting to local...
>   050 <reader at localhost.local.net0>... Sent
>   [...]snip
> 
> Snippet from sendmail log output:
> 
>   Feb 3 18:08:24 localhost sm-mta[23566]: k1408O7a023566:
>   from=<root at localhost.local.net0>, size=357, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>   msgid=<200602040008.k1408OM8023565 at localhost.local.net0>,
>   proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
> 
>   Feb 3 18:08:24 localhost sm-mta[23566]: k1408O7a023566:
>   to=<reader at localhost.local.net0>,
>   ctladdr=<root at localhost.local.net0> (0/0), delay=00:00:00,
>   xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30357, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> 
> Still this localhosts name is not coming thru...
> 
> > Try browsing other people's zone files to see examples of this in
> > action
> 
> Do you mean finding them on this forum or is there a repository
> somewhere of examples?
> 
> zone file used for above ouput:
> ========================================
> $TTL 1D
> local.net0.     IN SOA    chub.local.net0.  hostmaster (
>                         200405191 ; serial
>                         8H        ; refresh
>                         4H        ; retry
>                         4W        ; expire
>                         1D )      ; minimum
> ; define the authoritative name server
> local.net0.     IN     NS      chub.local.net0.
> ; [HP 01/30/06 09:56 The 10 indicates priority [lower is higher]]
>                 MX      10 chub.local.net0
> ; define domain functions with CNAMEs
> ;[HP 01/29/06 08:29  ]depot           CNAME   stallman
> ;[HP 01/29/06 08:29  ]www             CNAME   cerf
> ;localhost.local.net0.		CNAME		chub.local.net0.
> ;tic.local.net0.        	CNAME    chub.local.net0.
> smtp.local.net0.         CNAME		chub.local.net0.
> 
> ; just in case someone asks for localhost.local.net0
> localhost.local.net0.        A       127.0.0.1
> ; our hostnames, in alphabetical order
> ansil.local.net0.           A       192.168.0.21
> bjp.local.net0.             A       192.168.0.16
> chub.local.net0.            A       192.168.0.4
> fw.local.net0.              A       192.168.0.20
> harvey.local.net0.          A       192.168.0.22
> mob2.local.net0.            A       192.168.0.3
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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