From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 22 12:15:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08597 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08589 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14482; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:13:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199811222013.PAA14482@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: DNS MX In-Reply-To: <008801be15f4$6b85ffe0$2900a8c0@desktop.briang.org> from Brian Gallucci at "Nov 22, 98 00:45:13 am" To: brian@briang.org Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:13:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Gallucci wrote, > I have Pri & Sec DNS both running Sendmail-8.9.1, > My Domain files look like this.. > -> > briang.org. IN MX 10 dns1.briang.org. > briang.org. IN MX 20 dns2.briang.org. > -> > But when I shut down Sendmail on the Pri DNS and > try to send a email message to brian@briang.org from hotmail > I get a error telling me that this is a unknow user, Check the headers on the returned mail. If it really is an 'unknown user' message returned, the mail /did/ get to the dns2, but that machine does not have a user or alias for 'brian.' In that case, it sounds like a problem with NIS or whatever you are using to define users across platforms, and not really a mail or DNS issue. If you really shut down dns1, it wouldn't happen to be the NIS master too? :) If you have more troubles with this, please post selected pieces of the mail headers. It would really help in diagnosing this problem. > but if > I start sendmail on the PRI DNS and try again it works fine. > > I have tested the Sec DNS I can send a email to root@dns2.briang.org > and it works fine.. Hmmm These would be consistent with the idea its a problem identifying the user 'brian.' -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message