Re: [PLUG] DNS CNAME issues

[Eric Cunningham <agent@drexel.edu>]

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it still isn't working.  I'm
kind of getting eager to get it working so i might end up giving the
machine a hostname of www.  But I'd much rather solve the problem and
understand why it wasn't working.

Also, after much struggle I finally have Sendmail and DNS working to the
point where i  can send and receive messages.  Does anyone know what i
have to do to be able to leave the hostname out of the address?
(@beccel.com rather then @mail.beccel.com)  I figured the MX record
would do it but it doesn't. Is there something within sendmail perhaps?

thanks,

-eric
 


Bill Jonas wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Eric Cunningham wrote:
> > ; Mail routing
> >                         IN MX   10 mail.beccel.com.
> 
> I believe you need an @ at the beginning of the line:
> @               IN MX   10 mail.beccel.com.
> (Someone correct me if that's unnecessary.)
> 
> > ; Addresses for the canonical names
> > localhost.beccel.com    IN A    127.0.0.1
> > mail.beccel.com         IN A    216.158.41.227
> > ns2.beccel.com          IN A    216.158.41.228
> 
> localhost.beccel.com.    IN A    127.0.0.1
> mail.beccel.com.         IN A    216.158.41.227
> ns2.beccel.com.          IN A    216.158.41.228
> 
> Otherwise, BIND will think, for example, that you are talking about hosts
> localhost.beccel.com.beccel.com, mail.beccel.com.beccel.com, and
> ns2.beccel.com.beccel.com.
> 
> > ; Aliases - the part that doesn't work...
> 
> Probably once you correct the above, these will work.
>



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