SUMMARY: How to setup nickname host?

From: Kee Koon Chua (kkc@stat.nursing.arizona.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 22 1992 - 02:35:29 CST


Greetings Sun Managers,

I got a few different responses for this questions. Some says that I need to
have the following lines in my sendmail.cf file:
  Dwdesert.ece.arizona.edu
  Cwdesert-gw.ece.arizona.edu

while some says that I need to have:
  Dmdesert-gw.ece.arizona.edu
  Cmdesert.ece.arizona.edu

I've tried both and they doesn't seems to work.

There was a response by blymn@awadi.com.Au which says:

>This is not a sendmail configuration problem, it is a DNS problem.
>You need to specify both hostnames as being mail exchangers (MX
>records) in your domain info files.

I didn't have a chance to try it because the guy in charge of DNS host is gone
for the holidays.

Currently, the quick and dirty solution that I used is to setup a rewrite rule
"arizona.edu" mailer so that any mail going to "desert" will be rewritten to
"desert-gw". It seems to work although this is just a temporary solution.
Anyway, I would like to thank the following people who responsed:

blymn@awadi.com.AU
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
larry@cch.com
alf@lifac1.ens-cachan.fr
randy@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
brunke@dkrz-hamburg.dbp.de
dla@se05.wg2.waii.com
ted@usasoc.soc.mil
konczal@sunmgr.ncsl.nist.gov
wallen@cogsci.UCSD.EDU
pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU
katz@rpal.rockwell.com
rich_b@oldham.gpsemi.com
ricardo@cmp.unicamp.br
max@ssi.it

Please let me know if I left your name out of this list.

Have a happy holiday,
Kee Chua



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