Re: NetReg: DNS.

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From: David Meuleman (dmeuleman@defiance.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 08:04:45 CST


Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong...but I'm fairly certain this is
correct. Only the localhost reads the /etc/hosts file. So, if you put
your mail server (and any other machine that NetReg may want to contact)
in /etc/hosts, it will know where to go. The information in /etc/hosts is
not passed on to the DNS clients.

If that information is not correct. Put the line
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:[w.x.y.z]')
in your sendmail.mc file (where w.x.y.z is the IP of your SMTP server).
Rebuild sendmail.cf and restart sendmail.

I just thought of a third option if you are using BIND 9. Create a view
for the localhost add the machines that NetReg contacts to that view.

I'm sure there are other options.

Dave Meuleman
Defiance College

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:07:26 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodworth
<kwoody@citytel.net> wrote:

>
> DNS has always been a bit of black art to me and while I can know most
> of the basics, having a bogus NS on the netreg machine has brought up a
> problem I dont know how to get around.
>
> As everything resolves to the netreg machine, if I want to send email
> reports to myself and others, how can that be done? Ive been digging
> through archives and such but dont know how to get around this.
>
> Do I setup a seperate zone? We dont run DDNS as we do that manually on
> our
> main DNS server.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
>
>
>
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