From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 12:19:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-250.oz.net [216.39.168.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C4837B400 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g52JJWG07931; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:19:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:19:32 -0700 From: Gary D Kline To: Joost Bekkers , Gary D Kline , Bill Moran , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: obscure firewall and mail problem... Message-ID: <20020602191931.GA7730@tao.thought.org> References: <200206020800.g52803901241@tao.thought.org> <3CF9F896.3000106@potentialtech.com> <20020602152128.A3792@bps.jodocus.org> <20020602174824.GA5931@tao.thought.org> <20020602205731.A4409@bps.jodocus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020602205731.A4409@bps.jodocus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:57:31PM +0200, Joost Bekkers wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:48:24AM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote: > > > > > > ; > > ns1.thought.org. IN A 216.39.168.248 > > tao.thought.org. IN A 10.0.0.2 > > ; > > ; > > > > ; MX records > > ;thought.org. IN MX 10 ns1.thought.org. > > ; IN MX 20 tao.thought.org. > > > > > > I want everytthing to flow through ns1.thought.org and > > have mail routed to my other machines on my LAN. > > > > Do you guys see what needs fixing with my MX records? > > or is this a sendmail config issue? > > You got your mx-preference reversed. The lowest number should be > the machine where your mailbox is. > I see your point. So with:: ; MX records thought.org. IN MX 10 tao.thought.org. IN MX 20 ns1.thought.org. you think that mail through my NS1 server will flow thru and see tao first and find both "kline@tao.thought.org" and "kline@thought.org" both?? Bill, does this make sense to you too? If tao is down should I put ns1.thought.org as a mail relay/MX site? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message