Re: smail confusion
I got the following message from Bernd:
> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 08:11:14 +0100
> From: eckes <ecki@lina.inka.de>
> To: jimr@simons-rock.edu (James A. Robinson)
> Subject: Re: smail confusion
>
> [my message removed]
>
> Its an error in smail. You dont have an MX Record for your host. Smail
> regognices this and aks for the A Record for this host. Unfortunately smail
> does no domain expansion while asking for the adress hint. A simple solution
> would be to put plato into an forcepath router, or you can add a MX Record
> for plato, or you can install an gethostbyname router after the bind router.
Ian wrote:
> nslookup is using a different nameserver, I think. The one your Smail
> is using, 198.112.200.8, is giving me bogus answers, whereas the real
> nameservers for the domain (the ones listed in its NS records) appear
> to be OK (I haven't tried each one).
No, they are all using 198.112.200.8 -- the reason I am making this
DNS server is because I want to get off of NearNet's slower server.
All our local machines are pointed towards the linux box.
But what is different between the two servers is that I don't have an
MX record for plato in my local setup -- I assumed smail would, upon
failing to find an MX record, do a type A lookup and send it to the
inet address. I would think that it is doing that on plato.
So what I need to do is add MX record for all the hosts that I want
able to receive mail? That works well enough! :)
Thank you both!
Jim
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