Re: Local mail causes dialout? 0.99-1/RH5.2

[Carlos Alberto de Almeida Jr]

Thanks Alex

        Now it's working fine

Carlos

Em qua, 13 out 1999, Alex H. Vandenham escreveu:
> It may be easy to set up qmail but it's easier to to just fix the sendmail
> problem if it's already working. 
> 
> When sendmail is asked to deliver mail (local or remote) it will verify the
> domain name and ip address to "prevent" spoofing.  So it does a lookup.  To
> handle lookups for local hosts, you should run named and force named to look in
> the hosts file before trying other nameservers.  You do that by adding a line
> to your host.conf file like this;
> 
> # force named to look at the local hosts file first
> order hosts bind
> 
> If you run named and diald, I have found that named tries to resolve the IP
> address that diald uses for the local Slip interface sl0.  So I added it to my
> hosts file.  Check for a line called "local" in diald.conf and use that Ip
> address in the hosts file like this; [ use whatever IP address is listed in YOUR
> diald.conf]
> 
> # bogus name for bogus interface to keep named happy with diald
> 192.168.2.10  bogus.localdomain       bogus 
> 
> Then when sendmail does the name lookup when it tries to send mail (even
> local), named will provide the answer based on what it finds in the hosts
> file.  The hosts file should have all your local addresses in it.  If named
> can't find the answer in hosts, it will try the nameserver listed in
> resolv.conf and that will trigger diald.   As far as I can tell, you can not
> force sendmail to use the hosts file. (?)
> 
> So, if you run sendmail, you should run named, and if you run named, it will
> trigger diald for any lookups it can't get locally.  So provide what it needs
> for ALL your local interfaces, including the one that diald creates.
> 
> alex
> 

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