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From: sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: need help with MX records
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.002804.2705@borland.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 00:28:04 GMT
Organization: Borland International
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We're running Sun OS 4.1.1 on a Sun 4 (Sparc), using the domain name
server and sendmail.mx software supplied by Sun. Our site has an IP
address on the Internet. For some reason mail addressed to hosts that
are not on the Internet, but are reached via MX records, bounces with a
an error about the host name not being found. I added the resolver
software to the shareable library, and that has to be working because
we can access sites on the Internet and the only way for sendmail to
get their address is through the domain name service (We are not
running the Yellow Pages).

I tried ftp'ing sendmail-5.65b+IDA, and sendmail-5.65 from
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu and building them. They seem to require a newer Bind.
I got that, and was able to build and run named, with no change in
results. But that version's gethostnamadr.c doesn't seem to compile ok
as position-independent code, so I can't put the new resolv lib in the
shareable library, sendmail 5.65 gets errors when I try to build it,
and sendmail 5.65b+IDA builds but doesn't run.

Before I put a whole lot more effort into this, does anyone have any
advice about how to get the MX records to be handled by the standard
domain name server and sendmail.mx, or how to get gethostnamadr.c into
a shareable lib, or how to build sendmail 5.65 for a Sun OS 4.1.1, or
any other way of making this work?

Thanks in advance.

 -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com>