I'm having a problem that I am just not smart enough to figure out.

I have a redhat 7.3 "mail" machine running sendmail which handles
internet mail just fine. My problem is when I send mail from another
linux host ("anothermachine") on the local network it wont go. 

I have DNS set up for "mydomain.com". In order to resolve names on the
local network I have also set up DNS for "mpls.mydomain.com". So
"mail.mydomain.com" from the internet gets you to my "mail" machine. To
get to my "mail machine On the local 192.168.1.x network I must use
"mail.mpls.mydomain.com".
  
Here is my sendmail error:
> The original message was received at Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:17:39 -0500
> from anothermachine [192.168.1.2]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <tomp at mail.mpls.mydomain.com>
>     (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 mail.mpls.mydomain.com. config error: mail loops back to me
> (MX problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

mail loops back because you are its final destination. So how do I tell
sendmail to accept mail addressed to mail.mpls.mydomain.com? I have
added it to /etc/mail/virtusertable (@mpls.circussoftware.com  %1)

My Private network dns:


> [root at mail root]# dig mpls.mydomain.com mx
>  
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mpls.mydomain.com mx
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22345
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2
>  
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mpls.maydomain.com.       IN      MX
>  
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mpls.mydomain.com. 10800  IN      MX      10 mail.mpls.mydomain.com.
>  
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> mpls.mydomain.com. 10800  IN      NS      routerbox.mpls.mydomain.com.
>  
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mail.mpls.maydomain.com. 10800 IN  A       192.168.1.3
> routerbox.mpls.maydomain.com. 10800 IN A   192.168.1.4
>  
> ;; Query time: 5 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.4#53(192.168.1.4)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Jun 16 15:43:39 2003
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 118

Thanks in advance for your help.

-- 
Tom Penney <blots at visi.com>


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