From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 3:45:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E5D37B400 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 03:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g52AjDU14925; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 06:45:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF9F896.3000106@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 06:51:02 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary D Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: obscure firewall and mail problem... References: <200206020800.g52803901241@tao.thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Gary D Kline wrote: > I'm not sure how or if it will be possible for anyone to > answer my sendmail/firewall question... I'll try to > explain things as best I can. > > A friend helped me set up a firewall *and* move my connections > from my IDSL router back to my hub. After umpteen hours we > finally had things flawless firewall-wise. We moved this > host (tao.thought.org) from its real IP to 10.0.0.2. > > From my DNS server sage.thought.org AKA ns1.thought.org (10.0.0.1), > mail only got through if I used my FQDN. Mail to "kline@thought.org" > either bounced or was off somewhere. > > Yes, I did add 10.0.0.1 to my access file ad marked it RELAY. There > seemed to be a problem with my /etc/namedb/s/db.thought.org entries. > Either that or with my sendmail.cf on NS1. Or then again, > possibly something else! > > If anyone can grok all of this and has any ideas, I'd be much > obliged for some ideas. Sounds like you don't have a proper MX record in the DNS config. The order in which things appear in the DNS config is important. Generally, putting the MX record as the first record (after the SOA) works pretty well. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message