Bounced Mail - DNS Problems?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 4 Apr 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?

Stupid suggestion which works just about all the time:

Overide DNS entries for A records with an entry in the local hosts file.

Hugo.

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