RE: any sendmail gurus out there?

You may have already seen this, but if not, it kinda sounds like what you
might be looking for.

http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

Hope it helps.

Jason

> ----------
> From: Scott Walde[SMTP:scott@saskatoon.com]
> Reply To: linux@slg.org
> Sent: May 27, 1999 07:08 PM
> To: linux@slg.org
> Subject: any sendmail gurus out there?
>
> Okay, here's an interesting one... I'm not sure I can figure this one
> out... i'm not even sure where to start.
>
> I have a domain hosted in my dns, lets say it's domain.com. The MX record
> for domain.com is mail(.domain.com.) That all works fine. Now, I want to
> add a machine to domain.com, lets call it ln.domain.com. I want email
> addressed to ln.domain.com to go to ln.domain.com unless ln.domain.com is
> unavailable. Then I'd like it to go to mail, and be 'relayed'. (Someone
> told me sendmail could do this... it will sit there, and sendmail will
> continually try to contact ln.domain.com to deliver the mail.) Now, just
> to confuse things, the ln.domain.com machine has a dynamic IP, which is
> dealt with with something like dyn.ml.org (ya, I know it doesn't exist
> anymore.)
>
> So,:
>
> ln.domain.com CNAME ln.dyn.ml.org.
> IN MX 10 ln
> IN MX 99 mail
>
> But named complains about this:
> named[12345]: ln.domain.com has CNAME and other data (invalid)
>
> I haven't even tackled the sendmail part yet, except for looking up
> 'relay' in the bat book... it's not what the guy I was talking to was
> talking about. Any hints or prods in the right direction?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> ttyl
> srw
>
>
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Received on Fri May 28 08:42:12 1999