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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Subject: MX error X-Nntp-Posting-Host: latcs5.lat.oz.au Message-ID: <D97CM4.1Ew@latcs1.lat.oz.au> Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 20:22:51 GMT Lines: 43 Hi, I am still on 1.1.5.1, and run into a problem receiving mails sent to localhost. Basically, the machine *used* to have an Ethernet card, but has been ripped away now, and I leava the hostname and domainname being the same as before. Now, I got myself connected to an ISP via SLIP, and I have the slip interface sl0 configured and set to the domainname as given by my services provider. In brief : ed0 = lespoir.my.private.domain hostname = lespoir domainname = my.private.domain sl0 = gw.isp.domain However, since the Ethernet card is no longer exists, I will never be able to say telnet/ftp into lespoir.my.private.domain, so what I have done is ifconfig sl0 alias lespoir.my.private.domain! Also, in my DNS data file, I keep non-authoritative data for sl0's name, ie: gw.isp.domain. IN A 210.21.64.13 Now, since my own domain is still NOT YET delegated to any other hosts on the net, I am using gw.isp.domain temporary to reach my FreeBSD box. It works for telnet/ftp except mail. Whenever I mail to wongm@gw.isp.domain, I got the following error in return mail : ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- wongm@gw.isp.domain (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 553 lespoir.my.private.domain config error: mail loops back to myself 554 wongm@gw.isp.domain... Local configuration error Note I DO NOT have any MX record for gw.isp.domain, but I do have this : *.my.private.domain IN MX 10 lespoir Does anyone have a cure for my email problem without having to change my hostname and domainname to be that for SLIP, ie gw.isp.domain ? I keep the old domainname because the FreeBSD box is used as a gateway locally, and the Ethenet card will go back soon. Thanks in advance.