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Xref: sserve comp.mail.sendmail:11483 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9488 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: wildcard MX records Date: 18 Mar 1994 16:35:00 -0500 Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2md6q4$or4@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> References: <lwitte.763845439@maui> <2m7v0v$4g5@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> <2mcg9d$68s@zappa.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bosnia.pop.psu.edu Keywords: sendmail,mx records In article <2mcg9d$68s@zappa.ruhr.de>, Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zappa.Ruhr.DE> wrote: >I have a local Network connected to the outside via UUCP for now. >So I cannot update my local Nameserver with the Class 1 domains. >For now I must lookup all names outside of my domain via >a mailertable lookup (sendmail 8.6.5) instead of using plain simple >canonicalization via DNS. I have an entry like this : > >*. IN MX 0 uugate While sendmail v8 was not designed with this setup in mind, it should be pretty simple to configure the sendmail.cf to forward all non-local mail to your upstream smarthost for delivery. There's no need to kludge DNS here. --Dave -- "A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A womain will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want." - William Binger