Sendmail Question (OT)

[Support ePaxsys/FRWS]

At 08:34 AM 3/9/04 +1100, Pete wrote:
>Sorry to post this here, but i cant work this out, and i know some of the
>users here are pretty handy with sendmail, i have never used it, so the
>config is almost greek to me.
>i am sure this is simple, but i have inherited some hylafax servers that
>use sendmail to mail the received fax to mail accounts on our domaino
>network - previously these were sending mail out our SMTP gateway (out
>of the network to the DMZ and then back in) so i enabled SMTP on the
>home server for each LAN and now wish to get sendmail to send directly
>to these home servers on an NT4 network with no DNS and private IP subnets.
>
>I modified the mailtertable to
>domain1.com.au                        SMTP:10.1.10.4
>
>But Sendmail always compains it cann find the host in DNS, have tried
>making a hosts entry too, but still no joy.
>
>I just want to forward all outbound mail to 1 smtp server on the same
>LAN, we have no DNS, we have only hostnames.
>
>Could anyone offer me any tips?


Put:
domain1.com.au                        SMTP:[10.1.10.4]
                                              ^^^^^^^^^ [ brackets ]
^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it does not try a DNS lookup. If it has a route to that server it should
work.

JPP