I got the following message from Bernd: > Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 08:11:14 +0100 > From: eckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James A. Robinson) > Subject: Re: smail confusion > > [my message removed] > > Its an error in smail. You dont have an MX Record for your host. Smail > regognices this and aks for the A Record for this host. Unfortunately smail > does no domain expansion while asking for the adress hint. A simple solution > would be to put plato into an forcepath router, or you can add a MX Record > for plato, or you can install an gethostbyname router after the bind router.
Ian wrote: > nslookup is using a different nameserver, I think. The one your Smail > is using, 198.112.200.8, is giving me bogus answers, whereas the real > nameservers for the domain (the ones listed in its NS records) appear > to be OK (I haven't tried each one). No, they are all using 198.112.200.8 -- the reason I am making this DNS server is because I want to get off of NearNet's slower server. All our local machines are pointed towards the linux box. But what is different between the two servers is that I don't have an MX record for plato in my local setup -- I assumed smail would, upon failing to find an MX record, do a type A lookup and send it to the inet address. I would think that it is doing that on plato. So what I need to do is add MX record for all the hosts that I want able to receive mail? That works well enough! :) Thank you both! Jim
