At 13:50 30.7.2000 GMT, Jens Hafsteinsson wrote:
>
>> >What I would like to know is what exactly qmail is trying to do. Why is
>>it
>> >doing a CNAME lookup in the first place? Why doesn't it just use the
>> >designated server in the MX records and be done with it? How does a DNS
>> >setup look like that works (the relevant parts)?
>>
>>
>>Your MX *is* a CNAME, mail.axon.is.
>
Can't get your MX-Record ...
>It did point directly to my mail servers A record, triton.axon.is, but I
>changed it to a CNAME just to see if that would change anything (which it
>apparently didn't).
>
>>
>>On the other hand, it seems that your problem is not with your domain.
>>AFAIK, no CNAME lookup of the local domain is needed to send mail. You
>>should start by checking your /etc/resolv.conf, it seems that qmail can't
>>get any DNS answers. Do you have a local DNS cache? Perhaps you should
>>switch to djbdns.
>
>I'm using named 8.2.2 as my primary DNS running on the same machine as the
>mail server.
>
>>
>>As a quick fix, try the following on your /etc/resolv.conf (saving the
>>previous contents elsewhere):
>>
>>search axon.is
>>nameserver 193.4.58.19
Try to avoid nameserver statement in resolv.conf
#nameserver 193.4.58.19
search axon.is
cheers.
eh.
>>
>>and restart qmail. If you can then send mail, then you don't have a correct
>>local DNS setup.
>>
>
>No, this didn't solve it. Someone said that by putting nameserver 127.0.0.1
>in resolv.conf fixed his CNAME problem but that didn't help either.
>
>Surely someone must be using named successfully with qmail?
>Or is the resolver misconfigured?
>My usual resolv.conf file is like this
>
>search axon.is
>namserver 194.144.127.194
>
>Thanks,
>Jens
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