On Friday 03 January 2003 10:37 am, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > Hey, all I assume you are running 8.0 Did you comment out the line in sendmail.cf that restricts sendmail to 127.0.0.1? mw > > I am trying to setup a mailserver on a new internet connection. The > domain has been registered, and I have a static IP. If I try and send > mail to the new domain, the mail bounces, and I get a message like: > > Recipient address: me@newdomain.com > Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address > Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.7.1 <me@newdomain.com>... Relaying > denied Remote system: dns;mail.newdomain.com > (TCP|151.164.30.29|36974|XX.XX.XX.XX|25) (tux.newdomain.com ESMTP > Sendmail 8.12.5/8.12.5; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:06:28 -0600) > > from my MUA, and in the maillog on the mail server I get: > > reject=550 5.7.1 <me@newdomain.com>... Relaying denied > > The ISP has setup the IP to resolve to the newdomain name, and I had > them enter an MX record for the mailserver, but they don't have an > entry for reverse DNS. Doing a dig command: > > ]# dig newdomain.com ANY > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> newdomain.com ANY > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62829 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;newdomain.com. IN ANY > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > newdomain.com. 142643 IN NS NAMESERVER1.MYISP.NET. > newdomain.com. 142643 IN NS NAMESERVER2.MYISP.NET. > newdomain.com. 20551 IN SOA nameserver1.newdomain.com. > hostmaster.nameserver1.newdomain.com. 2002121205 3600 900 1209600 > 43200 > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > newdomain.com. 142643 IN NS NAMESERVER1.MYISP.NET. > newdomain.com. 142643 IN NS NAMESERVER2.MYISP.NET. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > NAMESERVER1.MYISP.NET. 53126 IN A XX.XX.XX.XX1 > NAMESERVER2.MYISP.NET. 53126 IN A XX.XX.XX.XX2 > > ;; Query time: 46 msec > ;; SERVER: 151.164.11.201#53(151.164.11.201) > ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 3 10:18:38 2003 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 214 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------ > > > > I am new to setting up DNS, so my questions are: > > 1. Does the ISP need to setup reverse DNS and make an address entry > for nameserver1.newdomain.com.? > > Or, should I setup DNS locally to do this? > > 2. If I setup DNS locally, how can I get incoming DNS queries to use > my DNS? > > > Thanks for your help, in advance. > > RK -- Registered Linux - 256979 NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
