someone else serving my mx record
Herman Mudget
mudget at null.freei.net
Sun May 14 06:59:48 UTC 2000
I have a co-located Server, which I am setting up to relay mail. I
already have dns services via my ISP. They have added an MX record for
foo.com so I can ping mail.foo.com. On the server, I also setup the DNS
servers to be my ISP's.
Problem is, sendmail can't qualify it's own domain name. This leads me to
believe that I need to run its own dns services on the box for sendmail to
run. A friend said that what I need to do, is locally setup a hierarchal
lookup so sendmail can qualify its own domain name. Essentially, I want
to run tertiary dns services on my server, since my ISP already has my
records configured. If at all possible (read if it doesn't make a byte of
difference) I'd rather not change my network solutions record. I would
like someone to tell me if what I want to do can be done, before I find
out the hard way.
Also, could someone point me to the difference between running named and bind?
this is all much appreciated.
mudget
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