RE: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Burger
I'm glad it was something simpler than what I thought it would be. Heaven knows, I always seem to go for the harder options. Sorry for the wild goose chase. On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Brent Canipe wrote: > Hey Thanks Steve, > define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `home.canipe.org')dnl > This worked like a champ

RE: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Burger
Port 53 has to be opened as TCP for zone transfers, and UDP for DNS lookups. On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Brent Canipe wrote: > Hey Thanks Steve, > define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `home.canipe.org')dnl > This worked like a champ.. > > Thanks again, > > Since you had the answer for this one, and you are runn

Re: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Burger
Well, then, you'll need to set the firewall to do SNAT for the outbound connections from your mail server. Of course, NAT only works if you have multiple external IP addresses to use. Otherwise, no matter what your router's config calls it, if you only have one IP to use, it's MASQ, not NAT.

RE: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-03 Thread Brent Canipe
Hey Thanks Steve, define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `home.canipe.org')dnl This worked like a champ.. Thanks again, Since you had the answer for this one, and you are running basicly the same setup as I am. DNS right now I simply have Bind (named) bound to port 53 in named.conf but that didn't work out

Re: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-03 Thread Brent Canipe
Actualy it is NAT. The firewall is a DL-604 D-Link DSL Router. The mail server is behind it. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/3/02 at 5:59 PM Mike Burger wrote: >According to what you've written, you're not actually doing NAT, but >you're simply port forwarding. > >You're firewall

Re: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-03 Thread Mike Burger
According to what you've written, you're not actually doing NAT, but you're simply port forwarding. You're firewall isn't set up to properly do MASQ from what I'm surmising. You need to make sure that your firewall has: $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE near the top...not a

RE: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-03 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: Brent Canipe > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:50 PM > Subject: Sendmail and firewall problem. > > > Hey Guys, > I know I'm not the only one that has run into this. > But right off hand I don't know how to fix it. > > I have a NAT filewall with a public I

Re: Sendmail and firewall problem.

2002-12-03 Thread nate
Brent Canipe said: > The problem is my outbound e-mail. > since the mail is being reported as from a server with a private address > (192.168.80.30) it gets rejected by other servers around the net because > the address is non resolvable. > > Is there a way to tell sendmail to report a differant a