I am running ASL 4.0 using SMTP Proxy for my mail server on my internal LAN. Have a few outside people also sending mail through the firewall relay as well.
My problem is this outgoing mail works fine. incoming mail meant for my domains work fine as well. But if one of my outside people use the ASL box to relay to a outside domain, it fails with a dns lookup error -1.
Now the weird part is I can ping from the shell all these address's by name the mail is timing out for. So I am surprised it is a DNS error . So I dug around a little bit and decided to enable the smarthost to my internal mail server. and it started working fine no problems. Mail coming going like a dream, however I can't understand why ASL 3.2 would work without a smart host and now I need one? Can anyone explain this to me? If it helps i am and was not running DNS proxy.
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