Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq2] Sendmail - infinite recursion problems...

[Shaun Masterman <shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shaun Masterman wrote:
> > Any of you DNS guru's know what I should tell my ISP to set the DNS as?
Or
> > what I need to do to get things working? Is there a way (ouside of the
> > GUI/Raq) to tell the Raq to accept access without the hostname (www.)
but
> > NOT to collect email for this domain (I believe this is the cause of the
> > problem)

Jeff Lasman wrote:
> It's probably NOT a DNS problem.  It's probably because the RaQ is set
> to receive mail for the domain.  You CAN turn that off and still use
> "http://domain.com/"; to see your site.  If you can't, let me know; I'd
> be surprised.  But I'd also help you fix it so you can <smile>.

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I've tried switching off the 'collect email for
domain' for a test site, and when I try and browse it without the www, I
just get the default cobalt page - at my server address.

http://www.headsetresearch.org
http://headsetresearch.org

In the little help box on the GUI - it says under the option for 'Accept
email for Domain'..: "configure this site (host.domain.com) to accept email
addressed to user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and user@xxxxxxxxxxx Also configure the
webserver to respond to http://host.domain.com and http://domain.com";

Is there a way outside of the GUI to de-couple these functions?

The reason I thought DNS problems is that, at one point in the past, for
just one domain, the setup worked - but only for a few weeks - Then my ISP
changed the DNS from whatever magical configuration was giving the desired
result, to 'their standard settings' during an audit of their DNS servers.
Unfortunately we can't replicate what the magic settings were... and I don't
know enough (anything!) about DNS to give them a clue...

Thanks,
Shaun.