Thanks Jeff. I'll check into it. For now I was able to solve the problem,
with help from another user, by putting the ip addr of the new qmail server
in the /var/qmail/control/smtproutes file. Now the old machine just dumps
all mail to the new machine and lets it sort it out. Works great!
- Gary
> You avoid a second machine for internal/external DNS bu using BIND
> 9.1.x which supports multiply view.
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> Jeff Sweeten
> Sr. Internet Engineer
> Aon
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> Kourosh Ghassemieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/26/2001 02:21:43 PM
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> To: Gary MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Jeff D Sweeten/ASC/US/AON)
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> Subject: Re: dns for qmail only??
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> You need to run a separate DNS server for internal queries, that's how
> I have my DNS set up. We use a separate DNS server for the internal
> addresses and we don't have any problems. qmail ignores /etc/hosts, it
> needs a DNS server.
>
> At 12:22 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>bind-9.1.0-10
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>>Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
>> >
>> > In a message dated Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:53:57AM -0400, Gary
>> > MacKay
>> wrote:
>> > > I moved qmail off of a 'do it all' box to it's own box. It's
>> > > running great. My problem is that the old machine is still the DNS
>> > > for my domain. When it sends status messages to me, it, I'm
>> > > guessing, checks DNS and gets the public IP of the new box, can't
>> > > connect to it from behind the firewall (both boxes are 192. ), so
>> > > it sends it to the secondary MX record, which is my old ISP. I
>> > > then get it via getmail cron job, but I'd like for it to deliver
>> > > internally. I've changed the /etc/hosts to point to the 192.
>> > > address, but qmail must not look at that. How can I have DNS
>> > > giving out the public IP for the world, yet tell qmail the 192.
>> > > addr??
>> >
>> > What DNS server are you running?
>> >
>> > --
>> > rjbs
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