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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:36:31 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        Kendall Shaw <queshaw@pacbell.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail masquerade configuration
Message-ID:  <37DC713F.38BF6920@nisser.com>
References:  <NDBBIGEOMKNMNDMFNPIFMEFPCNAA.queshaw@pacbell.net>

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Kendall Shaw wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to setup email on my freebsd machine. I have two computers on a LAN. The
> freebsd machine has 2 ethernet cards. I am using ipfilter for nat.
> 
> When I setup networking, I figured that I should not call myself pacbell.net, so
> my hostname is unix1.orfice.org. The other station is called kendall.orfice.org. As
> it is, sendmail uses unix1.orfice.org in mail headers and the mail server at pacbell
> complains that the domain doesn't exist. So, I did as "the complete freebsd" says,
> and added:
> 

nisser:~# whois orfice.org
 ...
No match for "ORFICE.ORG".

Ones does need to actually own the domain one pretends to own. Although,
failing that one could hack up, say, the hosts file.

Roelof

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