Message-Id: <19980220214623.11432.qmail@hyperreal.org>
Date: 20 Feb 1998 21:46:23 -0000
From: Christopher Galvin <chrisg@godshome.com>
Reply-To: chrisg@godshome.com
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: config/1852: General Problem regarding vhost's (mainly DNS and mail)
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>Number:         1852
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       General Problem regarding vhost's (mainly DNS and mail)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 20 13:50:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     chrisg@godshome.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3b3 and 1.2.5 and 1.3a1
>Environment:
Linux v2.x
Solaris 2.5
>Description:
This problem will only occur if your mail server is not the web server.
What happens is if you want to have a domain say test.com.. DO NOT PLACE
test.com in your DNS under your reverse pointer tables as the first entry!
Enter www.test.com and then test.com. If you try to send e-mail, sendmail
looks at the route you have in place (45.34.2.1 -> test.com) from your 
network.conf file (order hosts, bind or bind, hosts) and believes that
test.com is local.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try it out: if your mailserver is different from your webserver, put
apache.org as the first entry under the reverse tables
149  IN PTR   apache.org.
149  IN PTR   www.apache.org.
mail originating from the webserver will no longer work if sent to
*@apache.org. But will work if the entries are reversed.
>Fix:
hostname before domain name
>Audit-Trail:
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