sendmail, a couple of questions.

Hi, My server name is mailsrv and it has two interfaces: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx =external ip, internet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy =internal ip, private lan File /etc/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

Efren Bravo wrote: [ ... ] 1st. How could I avoid this error (/var/log/maillog)? Mar 29 15:52:51 mailsrv sendmail[10381]: gethostbyaddr(yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) failed: 1 Fix your reverse DNS for that IP. If yyy is internal, set up a local nameserver to provide a reverse zone, otherwise talk to your

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

At 08:03 AM 3/30/2006, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, My server name is mailsrv and it has two interfaces: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx =external ip, internet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy =internal ip, private lan File /etc/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

At 11:33 AM 3/30/2006, you wrote: File /etc/hosts looks like: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com. don't have duplicate names to different IP's. Also be sure you have dotted fully qualified names for both IP's. FWIW, the double