Mail can be sent from nameserver only

[Kevin Darcy]

If all of the boxes are resolving from the same nameserver, and mail to the
domain works from one box but not the other, then I'd say it's a mail
configuration problem rather than a DNS problem. You could confirm this
further by turning on query logging on ns-alpha and verifying that the other
boxes are indeed looking up that domain.


- Kevin

Pumpkinhead wrote:

> Hey gang,
>
> I have a number of Linux boxes set up on the same domain (call it
> alpha.foo.bar) whose nameserver is called, say, ns-alpha.
>
> What should I be looking for if I can send mail to a system on another
> domain (call it beta.foo.bar , which is using an Exchange server) from
> ns-alpha but not from any other system on the alpha domain?
>
> The other alpha systems are all configured the same as ns-alpha in
> /etc/resolv.conf .  Furthermore, I do not get any error messages bouncing
> back to me on these systems; it's like they just disappear.
>
> TIA,
>
> Peter