As far as I know, sendmail uses DNS and the server's name resolution it is
running on for the IP's. There is nowhere I know in sendmail where an IP
is hard coded. If you are having any difficulty it is due to changes to
your DNS, and the time it takes for DNS changes to propagate across the net.
It sounds like you were doing too many changes at one time, moving to a new
ISP which would require a change to all your IP addresses, AND changing
your DNS from internal to the ISP's.
In making these changes you need to first get on your new IP block, so you
have internet access. Then update your DNS records for the new IP
addresses. Then as a last step move the DNS to your ISP, making your
server's DNS a slave DNS or just a caching DNS server.
In making a move to your ISP's DNS be aware ISP's do NOT usually update
their DNS maps often, typically once a week, then the new maps begin
proliferating which usually takes 24-72 hours.
Hope this helps.
-Derek
At 09:35 PM 2/25/2006, Curtis Hart wrote:
Does anyone have any specific information on making IP address changes
to Sendmail servers since I have found that this situation is a lot more
difficult/tedious than I had thought. The Sendmail server in question is
also providing DNS for a web server, but I would like to use our new
ISP's DNS info for our web domains and for the mail server. In a
nutshell, I recently started working for a small business that has a mail
server and web server, this occurred just after they had already begun
switching to a new ISP (Mpower). I thought I knew enough UNIX/sys admin
info to make this happen but this has turned into a minor nightmare for
me, since Sendmail has so many files that may contain the old IP info.
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Mail
Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
