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Subject: Re: Outgoing mail dns problem
From: Tong_Esmond/HP-HongKong_om1 @ sgp . hp . com
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 20:05:22 +0800
To: firewalls-owner @ GreatCircle . COM, tries @ gateway . mitre . org
Cc: bsuskind @ melpar . esys . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, patrick @ oes . amdahl . com, tries @ landmark . mitre . org
In-reply-to: <9410171839 . AA18052 @ landmark . mitre . org>

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Hello Tom,

  I have checked the directory you have specified to try to download the
config file there.  However I can't see any out there.  Would you please
post it again !!

  Moreover, can you provide any channels or information sources that I 
can retrieve more info on how to setup External and Internal DNS and how
to configure Sendmail to handle that case ??

   Thanks a lot for your help !!

Best Regards,
Esmond TONG
> 
> >If we could figure out how to have a machine on the inside of the firewall
> >use mx records and still deliver the mail to the net, it would be a big win.
> 
> We're doing this. It's done by modifying sendmail.cf on the internal machine
> to do the following:
> 
> 1.) deliver mail destined for that machine via the local mailer
> 2.) if the mail is determined to be local (ends in the same domain
>     if you're using Sun) then look up the destination in the DNS
> 3.) otherwise the mail is for an external machine so send it to 
>     your bastion host
> 
> You modify the bastion host to do the opposite: send all local mail to the
> mail hub and look up other names in the DNS.
> 
> For this to work, you also have to be running seperate internal and external
> DNS servers and using the sendmail.mx executable.
> 
> Last time I admitted to knowing how to do this I got flooded with requests.
> To keep that from happening, please try looking at this file first:
> 
> ftp://aelred-3.ie.org/pub/mail/config.tar
> 
> Tom
> 


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