Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!paul From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: sendmail.cf for RS/6000 ?? Message-ID: <1990Oct24.195917.20852@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Oct 90 19:59:17 GMT References: <871@ki.UUCP> <1990Oct22.193236.18485@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3975@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 45 jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes: >Hmmm, Paul, I'm sort of confused as to what you find so terrible about AIX3's >sendmail? It's real close to 5.61 with several enhancements that I think are >not too shabby. So please enlighten me as to what is in IDA's 5.65 that you >like so much more, and we'll do our best to get it into the next release! I'd really like to follow up via email but things look to be very screwed up on your DNS server and mail machine: % mx sandino.austin.ibm.com sandino.austin.ibm.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = cs.utexas.edu.austin.ibm.com OK, let the contact for the austin.ibm.com zone know about it: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 14:37:40 CDT To: From: MAILER-DAEMON@test.austin.ibm.com (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> HELO test.austin.ibm.com <<< 553 test.austin.ibm.com Do not communicate with self 554 ... Service unavailable: No such file or directory ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by test.austin.ibm.com (AIX 2.1 2/4.03) id AA01576; Wed, 24 Oct 90 14:37:40 CDT Received: by ux2.cso.uiuc.edu id AA13474 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for root@austin.ibm.com); Wed, 24 Oct 90 19:37:16 GMT Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 19:37:16 GMT From: Paul Pomes Message-Id: <9010241937.AA13474@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu> To: root@austin.ibm.com Subject: missing period in DNS records Try printing the MX record for sandino.austin.ibm.com . /pbp -- Paul Pomes UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910