Bounced Mail - DNS Problems?

Matt Hayes dominian at slackadelic.com
Wed Apr 4 19:35:04 IST 2007


Johnny Stork wrote:
> I had actually tried that before, but here is my problem. I run a Scalix 
> mail server internally and so it is setup to send outgoing mail to 
> gateway.johnnystork.ca (192.168.1.2) which runs mailscanner and is the 
> SMTP mail server for my network. But as soon as I ad the A record for 
> gateway.johnnystork.ca so it resolves to 207.216.240.22, the Scalix 
> mailserver cannot route/forward all outgoing mail to 
> gateway.johnnystork.ca. Is there any way I can have the internal 
> machines resolve/see the servers only with their internal IP's, even if 
> there is a cooresponding a record and routable ip address?
> 

Well, if it were me, I would configure the server to relay mail to the 
internal IP rather than a domain name then add the DNS A record for the 
correct entry.

-matt




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