[ILUG] e-mailing a domain that you can't dns

[Brian Parris]

Strange, guess my sendmail wasn't setup to do that, it worked fine once i
added the following line to my /etc/sendmail.cf

DSmail.in.freei.net

where mail.in.freei.net is the mail server for my isp, thanks for the info

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Sean wrote:

> Brian Parris wrote:
> > 
> > I am able to dns www.linux.ie but the dns lookup always fails for
> > linux.ie, so how am i able to e-mail ilug at linux.ie if the address can't be
> > resolved?
> 
>   the mailer (sendmail/qmail/exim/whatever) will find the MX record for
> linux.ie
>    So 'linux.ie' doesn't point to an IP, but rather to a record that
> will point to
>    an IP (or should)
> 
>   try: nslookup -q=mx linux.ie
>   It'll give info on the 'MX' (mail) records of dns.
>   for more info check out the dig command.
> 
> Sean.
>