erik wrote:

> MK wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> > I hope this one is easy for any one of you, its got me stumped.
> > I've been collapsing most of my DMZ into a multihomed server.
> > I still have separate servers for mail relay and mail hub, but I am
> > finding that for mail originating internally, and destined to another
> > internal recipient with a generic email address, the relay sendmail is
> > not translating the generic emails into the hub email address, and the
> > mails get stuck in the relay's spool directory with a "hostname lookup
> > failure" from the hub.
> > The multihomed server is also using split-horizon dns for routable
> > external and non-routable internal domain addresses; could it be that
> > that's the cause of the problem?
>
> To me that is a likely cause of errors. How would the relay know that
> these users are internal recipients?
>

Could have been the case. I stopped natting outbounds through the principal
interface and the symptom has improved from 'chronic' to 'endemic', instead
of all failing and I having to retouch q-files, now they fail only
sometimes, and the spool clears by itself when I reset sendmail. I suspect
if I upgrade to the latest version and arp patch the problem could go away
altogether.

But 3.5's round the corner. I better report my 3.4 SCSI 'symptoms' B4 end
of March.

MK