Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!stan!dce
From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mail to solbourne.com - what's missing?
Message-ID: <854@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 18:03:41 GMT
Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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We are a site with only UUCP access to the outside world.  We
registered our domain (solbourne.com) with UUNET fairly recently, using
nbires.nbi.com as our forwarding host.

Some people are able to send mail to people here as user@solbourne.com,
but this is not universally available.  When I login to boulder
(boulder.colorado.edu) and try to send mail to dce@solbourne.com,
it doesn't know how to send it.  If I send to xxx@nbires.nbi.com,
boulder connects to UUNET and sends the mail, which is what I
expect when I send to dce@solbourne.com.

I have been told that the problem is that there is no MX record
for us, but there is an NS record for us.

I was under the impression that sites were supposed to have a
forwarding host, who supposedly knows more about the world, that they
sent mail to if the route could not be determined (I know that this is
the case at MIPS and at Solbourne).  In other words, when boulder can't
figure out how to send to solbourne.com, they are supposed to forward
the mail to CSNET-RELAY, who should have enough knowledge to know
to send the mail to UUNET or send it on to their forwarding host
(though I suppose it's reasonable to assume that CSNET-RELAY doesn't
have one).

What do we need to do to get things set up so that everyone can
send to us?

Also, does anyone out there have a sendmail.cf for SunOS 3.2 that
will send and receive general domain-style mail?  We can't upgrade
our main machine to 4.0, and the base 3.2 sendmail.cf only forwards
ARPA and BITNET.

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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