Could be routing problem?

[Roger Beever]

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:08, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 
> > At 01:41 3/20/2004, you wrote:
> > >Info you asked for:
> > >
> > >1. Here is /etc/hosts:
> > ># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > ># that require network functionality will fail.
> > >127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> > >#
> > ># Local stuff
> > >#
> > >192.168.1.1     mark.neidorff.com       ja.neidorff.com
> > >192.168.1.16    ns1.neidorff.com
> > >192.168.1.18    mail.neidorff.com
> > >192.168.1.3     dan.neidorff.com        dan
> > >192.168.1.2     kids.neidorff.com       kids
> > >192.168.1.4     merri.neidorff.com      merri
> > >192.168.1.5     bob.neidorff.com        bob
> > >192.168.1.6     cybergenie.neidorff.com cybergenie      CyberGenie
> > >172.16.154.1    vmware
> > 
> > Try adding this to /etc/hosts:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1       neidorff.com
> > 64.36.121.2     neidorff.com
> > 
> > Part of your problem may be that your computer does not recognize *itself* 
> > as neidorff.com even though the rest of the Internet does.
> > 
> > Just as a random suggestion, I would also change this line:
> > 
> > 192.168.1.1     mark.neidorff.com       ja.neidorff.com
> > 
> > into these two lines:
> > 
> > 192.168.1.1     mark.neidorff.com       mark
> > 192.168.1.1     ja.neidorff.com         ja
> > 
> > Let us know if this improves anything.
> > 
> 
> I implemented each of your suggestions one at a time.  Still the same
> behavior.  (I restarted sendmail after each change, even though I knew
> that wasn't necessary)  Each time an e-mail arrives, it still goes through
> 26 hops (25 max) before being delivered by default.
> 
> Mark
Just for clarification do all the IP addressed represent different machines?
With the VM ware an exception.
Also does incoming mail (from the Internet) go to mail.neidorff.com
first?
Regards Roger