From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 22 16:34:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA09424 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 16:34:41 -0700 Received: from virgo.ai.net (virgo.ai.net [198.69.44.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA09418 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 16:34:38 -0700 Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [198.69.44.1]) by virgo.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA10199; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 19:42:14 -0400 Received: (from nc@localhost) by aries.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id TAA10981; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 19:34:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 19:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: Ollivier Robert cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MX records and sendmail In-Reply-To: <199507222328.BAA26114@blaise.ibp.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Jul 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > in the DNS entry, what will happen is B will freak out trying to send > > back to itself on the MX try. Site B is the best site for A, it should > > try A directly. What will happen is the mail will be held in B's queue > > until A comes back online. > > Not all sendmail will react like this. This not the default behaviour > for sendmail 8.x : > > # if we are the best MX host for a site, try it directly instead of config err > #O TryNullMXList > I was just looking at the sendmail.cf that I believe came with my installation of FreeBSD since I assumed that is what Nate would be using. You are right that not all sendmails will react that way. -Jerry.