From: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Subject: Re: internet with smail3
Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp
Reply-To: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:41:21 GMT

As quoted from <BxG7uM.87A@gator.rn.com> by larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder):

+---------------
> We are running smail3, and should be live on the internet
> as of this afternoon.  Do I just need to fire up the sendmail
> deamon for smail as covered in the docs to listen for inbound
> SMTP traffic?
> 


You can either run sendmail in daemon mode (assuming that you
compiled it with TCP/IP support), or invoke it by inetd whenever
there is a request on a proper port..... 


> I assume smail3 will use my hosts file and attempt to route traffic
> that way before defaulting to the uucp maps?
> 

It depends on how you set up your routers file, smart host and
smart transport; Also, you wil be better of reconfiguring smail to
use BIND functionality. Take a look at ~/samples/genereic/routers.

I run nameserver locally, so for me BIND routines are working like
a charm... 

> Do I need to start a specific deamon here so that other sites know
> that gator.rn.com is alive receiving inbound SMTP traffic?


Yes and no. No - you do not need to run a specific daemon locally
to advertise yourself unless you are your primary nameserver. 

Yes, cause your primary nameserver have to do it for you. 


Once your nameservers will advertise your presence on the net
(And I hope you asked them to modify data for your domain from MX
record to A record...), other machines will try to reach you
directly; until nameservers will advertise it, no one will pay
attention to your presence :-). 



I just run a nslookup for you, Larry - and according to it, you
are not connected; 

Default Server:  wariat.org
Address:  192.147.147.17


>gator.rn.com

*** No adress (A) records available for gator.rn.com

> set type=mx
> gator.rn.com
> Server:  wariat.org
Address:  192.147.147.17

Non-authoritative answer:
gator.rn.com	preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay1.UU.NET
gator.rn.com	preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay2.UU.NET

Authoritative answers can be found from:
RN.COM	nameserver = NS.UU.NET
RN.COM	nameserver = UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM
RN.COM	nameserver = UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.COM
RN.COM	nameserver = NS.EU.NET
RN.COM	nameserver = NS1.RUTGERS.EDU
relay1.UU.NET	internet address = 137.39.1.5
relay1.UU.NET	internet address = 192.48.96.5
relay2.UU.NET	internet address = 137.39.1.7
relay2.UU.NET	internet address = 192.48.96.7
NS.UU.NET	internet address = 137.39.1.3
UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM	internet address = 16.1.0.18
UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.COM	internet address = 16.1.0.19
NS.EU.NET	internet address = 192.16.202.11
NS1.RUTGERS.EDU	internet address = 128.6.21.6
> 


What shows us that your nameservers (I belive it is UUNET...)
do not advertise your existence yet. 

Patience, Larry... 
:-)


> 
> -- 
> Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
> keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry



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