>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> writes:
Patrick> Hello, I recently setup a majordomo list on a Sun running
Patrick> Solaris 2.3 and I have seen this message two or three
Patrick> times in the last couple of days. The unknown domain
Patrick> scholar is in fact scholar.cc.emory.edu as defined in our
Patrick> host file. Any suggestions on how to cure this problem,
Patrick> if in fact it will be a problem? I suspect it lies
Patrick> somewhere deep in the bowels of Solaris/Sendmail
Patrick> configuration but I don't know were to look for it.
Patrick> ********Error Message******* ----- Transcript of session
Patrick> follows ----- Connected to bham.ac.uk:
>>>> MAIL From:<majordom@scholar>
Patrick> <<< 550 Unknown domain 'scholar' 554
Patrick> G.J.Norton@bham.ac.uk... Remote protocol error
Patrick> *******End Error Message******
You are right it's in the sendmail.cf, but the exact problem is
related to your network configuration. I had a similar problem when
moving to Solaris from Sunos. I'll describe it and the solution and
hope it helps you.
The problem arose originally in Sunos's broken hostname() when used
with DNS. To get a Sunos box to work gracefully with DNS I needed to
have a hosts table with lines like the following.
123.456.789.012 somehost.domain.com somehost
The problem is that hostname() then returns somehost.domain.com
instead of just somehost. I had to hack the sendmail.cf file so that
$j would not be somehost.domain.com.domain.com. That was done by the
line.
Dj$w.$m
becoming
Dj$w
When I went to Solaris, I copied the sendmail.cf over from Sunos and
$j became just somehost. The fix of course was to go back to the
original form of the line.
Hope this helps.
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