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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail for CNAME aliases?
- Message-ID: <davecb.724112643@yorku.ca>
- Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: York University
- References: <9212111949.AA12276@ecnet.ec>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:24:03 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- jhidalgo@ecnet.ec (Javier Hidalgo E.) writes:
- |Two questions: 1) is there a way to get sendmail to recognize that a
- |CNAME points to its own host machine? 2) What does "local" mean in the
- |above error message? It seems to us that the problem is, in fact,
- |that ecnet.ec IS recognizing "ecnet.ec" as its own name....
-
- I've not looked at the AIX sendmails (thank God, I'ev not had to run
- sendfail(8) on **any** of ours), but many sendmail.cf's have rules
- which match ``other domains'' and ``other names''. Search for
- declararions like:
-
- DMtron.com
- CMtron.com bozotron.com
-
- Also look for mention of aliases for the hostnames. Finally, search
- for rules with ``$='' variables in them, as these match lists of names,
- not just single names, and are how one implements alias recognition.
-
- --dave (who uses zmailer) c-b
- --
- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
- 72 Abitibi Ave., |
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