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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!atha!canada!lyndon
- From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: 565c+IDA: how to be authoritative for a domain w/o DNS?
- Message-ID: <99@ampr.ab.ca>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:15:46 GMT
- Organization: Boycott AT&T!
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- I'm running a UUCP only system that is the primary mail server for
- the ampr.ab.ca domain. I have a number of UUCP connected machines
- (and a couple on the ethernet) that reside under that domain who
- receive internet mail via a wildcard MX pointing to my UUCP smarthost
- (alberta). ampr.ab.ca does not (and cannot, due to C compiler braindamage)
- run DNS. I maintain a partial pathalias database (u.can.* only), and
- punt anything I don't know a route to at alberta (which is on the Internet).
-
- This works well with one exception: I cannot seem to convince sendmail
- to consider itself authoritative for the ampr.ab.ca domain. Any time I
- receive mail for bogus.ampr.ab.ca where bogus is nonexistent, sendmail
- punts the mail to alberta, which finds the wildcard MX and quite cheerfully
- forwards the message right back to me.
-
- Is there any way to configure sendmail to bounce these messages instead?
- If I could get DNS working this wouldn't be a problem, but the documentation
- is not very clear how to do this on a UUCP only machine. Any and all help
- with this would be appreciated.
-
- --lyndon
-