permanent fatal errors...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7td46f$1l9$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <ddadda at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I configured a bind 8 server on a redhat distrib

This is a sendmail problem, not a DNS problem.

>I own a domain name xxxxx.com
>but when I set up sendmail only root is able to receive mail
>
>when I send mail to another user I received that in return ...
>
>
>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><team at xxxxx.com>
>    (expanded from: <team at xxxxx.com>)
>
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 <team at xxxxx.com>... Host unknown (Name server: 127.0.0.1: host not
>found)

It looks to me like you've configured aliases like:

name: name at 127.0.0.1

or maybe you've got a rewrite rule in the sendmail.cf that does this.  It's
trying to treat 127.0.0.1 as a hostname, and of course it can't find it.

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