Les Mikesell wrote:
>You appear to have a wild-card mx for *.nurdog.com but aren't
>set up to handle all the possible names. What should happen
>even if you add your domain to the unresolvable one is that
>
>you would still get a 'host not found' from the dns lookup.
>
Thanks Les I believe I understand now. I don't have a wild-card mx but I
think I know where you were going with this. My zone file was originally
put together by my ISP:
$ORIGIN nurdog.com.
$TTL 5h
;
@ IN SOA ns1.mric.net. support.mric.net. (
2006021901 ; serial
1h ; refresh
30m ; retry
7d ; expiration
1h ) ; minimum
;
@ NS ns1.mric.net.
@ NS ns2.mric.net.
@ A 204.144.183.66
* A 204.144.183.66
;
nurdog.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:mail.nurdog.com a:smtp.nurdog.com
~all"
@ MX 1 nureyev.nurdog.com.
I never changed anything from the original setup after I took control.
With the wild-card A record I will never get a host not found error.
Just now I removed the wild card A record and placed only explicit
entries for hosts which I know about. Now I get the desired behavior:
# sendmail -bt -C./sendmail.cf
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 3,0 jdavidson4 at home.com
canonify input: jdavidson4 @ home . com
Canonify2 input: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Canonify2 returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
canonify returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
parse input: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Parse0 input: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Parse0 returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
ParseLocal input: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
ParseLocal returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Parse1 input: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Mailertable input: < home . com > jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Mailertable input: home . < com > jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Mailertable returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Mailertable returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
MailerToTriple input: < > jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
MailerToTriple returns: jdavidson4 < @ home . com >
Parse1 returns: $# esmtp $@ home . com $: jdavidson4 < @ home
. com >
parse returns: $# esmtp $@ home . com $: jdavidson4 < @ home
. com >
Thanks for pointing this out ... it was driving me crazy.
--
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)