From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 19:43:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whitestar.cpn.org.au ([147.109.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27082 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (jumpgate.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.1]) by whitestar.cpn.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA06558; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:42:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:42:56 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@jumpgate.cpn.org.au To: David Vondrasek cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail server probles ( I think ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David Vondrasek wrote: > I home someone can help me with a server setting or maybe I'm just stuck. > When I try and email the questions list, or several other mail servers for > that matter I the message refused due to the headers. My system consists of > 2 fbsd boxs ( and some Win95 boxs) on an internal network. It has a dedicated > IP and resolves to davidv.iadfw.net, This is my gateway for the local > network and serves as the mail server for outbound and some incoming mail for > my home network. All works fine sending the mail from this box, ( > davidv.iadfw.net does resolve ) But if I send mail from the other FBSD box > behind the gateway I get refused at the servers due to this: > > Received: from workbox.davidv.iadfw.net (david@workbox.davidv.iadfw.net > > " workbox.davidv.iadfw.net " will not resolve. Maybe I'm not setting up the > network naming correct or something. Is there a way to get around this ? > How can I use my *nice/fast/X-win/mega memmory/SuperVGA/have to have it* > fbsd box and still email from it. > > I have tried telling it the SMTP server of the GATEWAY and also letting the > machine's own sendmail mail it, But " workbox.davidv.iadfw.net " always > shows in the headers and it rejects it. > Is there an A record for workbox.davidv.iadfw.net in your DNS ? doing an nslookup yields "Non-existent host/domain" when I query it. cheers, Carey Nairn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message