dns mx prob

sachin1361 · 03-05-2007, 02:31 AM

I have one Linux server ES-4 edition. and first time implementing BIND ans sendmail on it.

Hostname : fruits
FQDN: fruits.orange.com
IP address: 172.17.0.206

Now i want to know how to configure BIND and sendmail so that BIND could resolve the addresses and mail flow starts.

As far as i know followinh line should be entered in zone conf file:

fruits.orange.com. IN A 172.17.0.206
orange.com. IN MX 0 fruits.orange.com.

Is it right ????? but donot know to configure sendmail for this ........ PL tell me

Another thing i want to know I 'd read somewhere on the Net that

mail sent to , in this scenario, say username@orange.com will be actually sent to the username@fruits.orange.com ..........

1))) If the above configuration in my zone file will automatically do this ?????
2))) should i change it to as:
orange.com. IN MX 0 orange.com.

3)) which one is better from above configuration and how the routing will be done

fukawi2 · 03-07-2007, 05:50 AM

Code:

$ORIGIN .
$TTL 38400      ; 10 hours 40 minutes
mydomain.com.au         IN SOA  mydomain.com.au. root.mydomain.com.au. (
                                2006082491 ; serial
                                3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
                                300        ; retry (5 minutes)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )
                        MX      10 mx1.mydomain.com.au.
                        MX      20 mx2.mydomain.com.au.
$ORIGIN mydomain.com.au.
$TTL 43200      ; 12 hours
mx1               A       172.17.0.206
mx2               A       <another ip address>

As for your second question, I'm not sure, but I'd like to find out too