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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!nlane
- From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
- Subject: Strange MX handling in AIX 3.2
- Message-ID: <C1LnvA.5pp@well.sf.ca.us>
- Summary: two nearly identical hosts, one can rx/tx, one can only tx
- Keywords: mail aix sendmail mx dns
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:13:58 GMT
- Lines: 65
-
- I have two hosts running AIX 3.2 right now and one of the hosts
- can send and receive from the internet in general and one of the
- hosts can transmit to the internet, but NOT receive. The
- hosts are nearly identically configured for their DNS and they
- are secondary servers for each other's domain. Here is a typical
- sendmail transcript to the one that IS working correctly:
-
- nathan@aurora.tricon.com... Connecting to aurora.tricon.com.tcp...
- nathan@aurora.tricon.com... Connecting to aurora.tricon.com (tcp)...
- 220 aurora.tricon.com Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 ready at Thu, 28 Jan 1993 2
- 1:01:20 -0800
- >>> HELO seldon.foundation.tricon.com
- 250 aurora.tricon.com Hello seldon.foundation.tricon.com, pleased to meet you
- >>> MAIL From:<root@seldon.foundation.tricon.com>
- 250 <root@seldon.foundation.tricon.com>... Sender ok
- >>> RCPT To:<nathan@aurora.tricon.com>
- 250 <nathan@aurora.tricon.com>... Recipient ok
-
- Here is the transcript to the one that is NOT working correctly -
- note that it responds to the other machine as just "seldon", not the
- full domain name:
-
- nathan@seldon.foundation.tricon.com... Connecting to seldon.foundation.tricon.co
- m.tcp...
- nathan@seldon.foundation.tricon.com... Connecting to seldon.foundation.tricon.co
- m (tcp)...
- 220 seldon Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 ready at Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:00:32 -08
- 00
- >>> HELO aurora.tricon.com
- 250 seldon Hello aurora.tricon.com (aurora.trico.tricon.com), pleased to meet yo
- u
- >>> MAIL From:<root@aurora.tricon.com>
- 250 <root@aurora.tricon.com>... Sender ok
- >>> RCPT To:<nathan@seldon.foundation.tricon.com>
- 250 <nathan@seldon.foundation.tricon.com>... Recipient ok
-
- I have enabled MX records in /etc/sendmail.cf. Here are the relevant
- lines for my MX records:
-
- [on the server that works):
-
- tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
- *.trico.tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
- trico.tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
- *.foundation.tricon.com IN MX 0 seldon.foundation.tricon.com.
- foundation.tricon.com IN MX 0 seldon.foundation.tricon.com.
-
- [on the server that doesn't work]:
-
- *.foundation.tricon.com IN MX 0 seldon.foundation.tricon.com.
- foundation.tricon.com IN MX 0 seldon.foundation.tricon.com.
- tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
- *.trico.tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
- trico.tricon.com IN MX 0 aurora.tricon.com.
-
- I am really stumped on this one right now and so is my SE. He suggested
- that I put "."'s after the domain names - but then it breaks completely and
- doesn't work at all.
-
- Thank you in advance for any help.
-
- -Nathan Lane
- Triicon Systems, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA
- nlane@well.sf.ca.us
-
-