BIND or sendmail configuration problem?

[Danny Mayer]

         That's probably because you don't own the name mydomain.com
   and I would guess the 212.254.208.245 IP Address.  You can only use
   the names and IP Addresses that you own on your nameserver, otherwise
   nothing will work right.

                 Danny
At 09:38 AM 1/1/01, Daniel Ludin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a problem with BIND / sendmail configuration. Because I'm really new
>to system administration, I can't even tell if this is really a DNS problem
>or with the sendmail configuration (for this case, I apologize for dropping
>the message in this forum).
>
>Here it is:
>
>I have BIND 8.2.2 running, and it looks like I finally managed to get it
>working. Now I'm trying to also get my sendmail working, but when I try to
>send a mail to myself, I get this error:
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>        <dani at mydomain.com>
>
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>        550 5.1.2 <dani at mydomain.com>... Host unknown (Name server:
>mail.mydomain.com.: host not found)
>
>
>
>As far as I understand, there have to be two records:
>
>    mydomain.com.    IN    MX    20 mail.mydomain.com.
>    mail.mydomain.com.    IN    A    212.254.208.245
>
>
>When I do a nslookup, it looks like that:
>
>    root# nslookup -type=MX mydomain.com
>
>    Server:  xhost.mydomain.com
>    Address:  212.254.208.245
>
>    mydomain.com   preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail.mydomain.com
>    mydomain.com   nameserver = xhost.mydomain.com
>    mail.mydomain.com      internet address = 212.254.208.245
>    xhost.mydomain.com     internet address = 212.254.208.245
>
>Did I forget something in the BIND configuration? Or is this a different
>(sendmail's) problem?
>
>Dani Ludin
>Bern, Switzerland
>
>