From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 16:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D89337B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-112vp95.biz.mindspring.com ([66.47.229.37] helo=FRANKENFURTER) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16AKSO-00069i-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2001 19:26:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:32:26 -0800 From: Brian Sobolak X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal Reply-To: Brian Sobolak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <32112067804.20011201163226@mindspring.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Exim and DNS - need a hand on DNS config MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 hi Short question: How do I get DNS to publish planetshwoop.com, instead of just www.planetshwoop.com or magenta.planetshwoop.com? Longer version (including details): I'm trying to get my mail server working so I can have my email addr match my domain. I've chosen Exim, which I've setup and configured, and am running it on 4.4-STABLE. The exact error message that I'm getting from Exim is (modified to fit inside this msg) 2001-12-01 14:49:50 16AIx3-0008JV-00 ** \ brian@magenta.planetshwoop.com R=send_to_gateway \ T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after \ end of data: host mail.mindspring.com \ [207.69.200.226]: 550 rejected: cannot \ route to sender It's using a remote SMTP server because earthlink (aka my ISP, aka mindspring) does not allow outgoing SMTP - it's blocked at the router level. I have to use their SMTP servers. So I've configured Exim to relay to one of the mindspring servers, and that's been working fine. However, I suspect that the 550 error message that I'm getting is because, as it says, planetshwoop.com doesn't actually appear in DNS. I checked this from another network and indeed, when I try to type "lynx http://planetshwoop.com" it doesn't work, but it will work for www or magenta.planetshwoop.com (the name of the host). I did the BIND configuration myself, following the instructions *exactly* from _The Complete FreeBSD Handbook_ by Lehey. I have included MX records in my DNS files. I believe however that I need to get DNS to publish planetshwoop.com, not just planetshwoop.com or magenta.planetshwoop.com? What piece of the DNS config am I missing, or is this Exim problem completely unrelated? TIA brian -- Got work? http://www.planetshwoop.com/resume/ This is how I think: http://www.planetshwoop.com/blog/ Brian Sobolak sobolak@myrealbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message