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Re: all outgoing mail is written as userlocalhost.localdomain

From: Aaron Harwood (aharwoodcs.mu.oz.au)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 05:07:26 CST

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 11:46 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:

> Okay, this could be a problem. Please set myhostname to a fully
> qualified name (mail.aerosoul.com.au).

Okay, I've set it to as above. I wont try changing that anymore then.

> "mydestination = mail" ist not unusable.

I see your point.

> The recommendation is also NOT to use a cname entry. Please use an A
> record to resolve your mx name.

I have this now in my external view:

[roothome named]# cat aerosoul-home.zone
;
; Zone file for aerosoul.com.au
;
; The full zone file for internal view
;

$TTL 3D

IN SOA ns1.aerosoul.com.au. hostmaster.aerosoul.com.au.
(
                        200551715 ; serial#
                        3600 ; refresh, seconds
                        3600 ; retry, seconds
                        3600 ; expire, seconds
                        3600 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
                    NS ns1 ; Inet Address of nameserver

aerosoul.com.au. MX 10 mail ; Primary Mail Exchanger

;
localhost A 127.0.0.1
home A 192.168.1.4
gateway A 192.168.1.1
mail A 192.168.1.4
ns1 CNAME home
ns2 CNAME home
www CNAME home
[roothome named]#

This is in my internal view:

[roothome named]# cat aerosoul-home.zone
;
; Zone file for aerosoul.com.au
;
; The full zone file for internal view
;

$TTL 3D

IN SOA ns1.aerosoul.com.au. hostmaster.aerosoul.com.au.
(
                        200551715 ; serial#
                        3600 ; refresh, seconds
                        3600 ; retry, seconds
                        3600 ; expire, seconds
                        3600 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
                    NS ns1 ; Inet Address of nameserver

aerosoul.com.au. MX 10 mail ; Primary Mail Exchanger

;
localhost A 127.0.0.1
home A 192.168.1.4
gateway A 192.168.1.1
mail A 192.168.1.4
ns1 CNAME home
ns2 CNAME home
www CNAME home
[roothome named]#

> I hope you have also set up a reverse lookup for your mx ip locally.

I have this in my reverse lookup:

[roothome named]# cat 192-168-1.zone
;
; Filename: 192-168-1.zone
;
; Zone file for 192.168.1.x
;
$TTL 3D
IN SOA www.aerosoul.com.au.
hostmaster.aerosoul.com.au. (
                             200511711 ; serial number
                             8H ; refresh, seconds
                             2H ; retry, seconds
                             4W ; expire, seconds
                             1D ) ; minimum, seconds
;
                  NS ns1 ; Nameserver Address
;

4 PTR home.aerosoul.com.au.
4 PTR mail.aerosoul.com.au.
4 PTR www.aerosoul.com.au.

32 PTR dhcp-192-168-1-32.aerosoul.com.au.
33 PTR dhcp-192-168-1-33.aerosoul.com.au.
34 PTR dhcp-192-168-1-34.aerosoul.com.au.
35 PTR dhcp-192-168-1-35.aerosoul.com.au.
36 PTR dhcp-192-168-1-36.aerosoul.com.au.

[roothome named]#

With the above settings, problem remains.

--Aaron