On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Sachin Garg wrote:
| > >On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Lee Kim Yuan wrote:
| > >> The problem is that when I sent mail from root@top.com to kylee@com, there
| > >> is an error returned in the SMTP DNS exchange error 554 - MX list for com
| > >> points back to solo.com. The error is attached as a text file here.
The most common reason is, solo.com doesn't know where to deliver mail for
com, but the MX is setup for it to point to solo.com. This is a sendmail
config problem, IMHO.
| > >
| > >Can you send me your DNS hosts file? It is possible that you have used a
| > >CNAME record for an MX entry. The MX entry should have an A type record.
May be I missed something on this, but you can use CNAME rr for MX. We are
using it without any trouble.
| I guess that the next line is in error. If solo.com. is to be mail
| exchanger for all machines in the com domain, you should do something
| like:
|
| *.com. IN MX 5 solo.com.
|
| instead of:
|
| > com. IN MX 5 solo.com.
Nope. *.com. will deliver all mails, even mails for user@someother.com too
solo.com. but only com. will ensure that mail for only user@com will be
sent to solo.com
| I guess that the next line is wrong or silly? Like what is the meaning of
| an MX record for the root?? Pl. elucidate me on this.
|
| > . IN MX 5 top.com.
Instead of doing this, put a relay mailer in the sendmail config...
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