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From: kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Hostname alias problem, help?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:20:03 GMT
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Hi,

	I have a machine called "d31jr0" which I want to alias to the
name "cumulus", because d31jr0 is such a silly mail name.  The
official hostname is d31jr0, but I already have an IP alias "cumulus"
for this machine.  I can ftp and telnet (ie use IP) from any machine
in the world to "cumulus".  However, when I send mail strange things
happen.  For most of the the western United States sending mail to
"cumulus" works.  Somewhere along the line a machine will substitute
"d31jr0" for "cumulus" in the address.  So, despite being sent to
"cumulus" the mail is received as if it were sent to "d31jr0".  Go
east of the Mississippi and the mail bounces with the classic "host
unknown".

I believe the problem is with the sendmail.cf on d31jr0.  Can anyone
tell me how to get the sendmail to accept messages to "cumulus" and
"d31jr0"?


BTW d31jr0 is a dec 3100 running ultrix 3.1


Thanks
Peter Kocks
kocks@jessica.Stanford.EDU