bind, dns, and sendmail
Murphy B. S. Dee.
mgd at telusplanet.net
Wed Aug 6 17:52:36 UTC 2003
1) freebsd 4.8, bind 8.3.4, sendmail v 8.12.8, apache 2.044
2) web server works great, can resolve from inside ok, can also send and
receive email with the following unresolved issue.
3) I am trying to resolve an issue with sendmail. Regardless of the account
from which I want to send my email, the source address is always:
account at ns.domain.com. As an example, suppose I have a virtual site
domain1.com with a user account called luser. If I were to send an email
form this account it would appear in mutt or mail as: luser at ns.domain.com,
not luser at domain1.com. The hostname of my server from rc.conf is
ns.domain.com. Here are my files, with real names changed to generic for
simplicity.
/etc/resolv.conf
domain domain.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver x.x.x.x (my public IP address of the server)
nameserver y.y.y.y (dns server of my ISP)
/etc/hosts
::1 localhost localhost.domain.com
127.0.0.1 localhost
x.x.x.x ns ns.domain.com
x.x.x.x ns.domain.com.
Virtusertable:
sa at domain.com sa
@domain.com error:nouser The User Does Not Exist
luser at domain1.com luser
@domain1.com error:nouser The User Does Not Exist
senmail.cw
domain.com
domain1.com
domain.com.fwd
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA domain.com. sa.domain.com. (
20030726302 ; Serial
21600 ; Refresh
1800 ; Retry
1209600 ; Expire
432000 ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns.domain.com.
IN NS clgrps01.agt.net.
IN MX 10 ns.domain.com.
IN MX 20 smtp.telus.com.
IN MX 30 smtp1.telus.com.
www IN A x.x.x.x
ftp IN CNAME www
domain1.com.fwd
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA domain1.com. sa.domain.com. (
20030726302 ; Serial
21600 ; Refresh
1800 ; Retry
1209600 ; Expire
432000 ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns.domain.com.
IN NS clgrps01.agt.net.
IN MX 10 ns.domain.com.
IN MX 20 smtp.telus.com.
IN MX 30 smtp1.telus.com.
www IN A x.x.x.x
ftp IN CNAME www
If I issue the command hostname, I get ns.domain.com.
If I issue the command host ns.domain.com, I get Host not found.
If I issue the command nslookup ns.domain.com, I get Server: ns.domain.com,
Address: 127.0.0.1, ns.domain.com can't find ns.domain.com. Non-existent
host/domain.
If I dig domain.com or domain1.com, I get appropriate responses.
If I issue the netstat command, I get:
tcp localhost.domain LISTEN
tcp ns.domain LISTEN
Note: the output of the two tcp statements are actual values, that is, it
does say localhost.domain and ns.domain, not the actual values of my virtual
host/server.
I am thinking that my sendmail issues are related to bind/dns. Can anyone
offer suggestions as where to look to help resolve this issue?
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