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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PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
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