internal mail routing

[Nathan J Zafar]

here is the scenario.

i have an exchange 2000 box which hosts mail for the domain 'sakon.com'

i have a oracle collaboration suite mailserver which hosts mail for the
domain 'sakon.net'

both systems are on my internal network and have public ip addresses mapped
to them on the firewall

both systems work perfectly in and out of the internet and within their own
domain

they cannot email each other

i have my internal ms dns setup with mx records to direct each other to the
internal ip addresses

i test on each machine with nslookup and get back the correct routing

can anyone think of any reasons why they are not able to email each other?
your help is appreciated. thanks!

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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here is the scenario.

i have an exchange 2000 box which hosts mail for the domain
'sakon.com'

i have a oracle collaboration suite mailserver which hosts mail for
the domain 'sakon.net'

both systems are on my internal network and have public ip addresses
mapped to them on the firewall

both systems work perfectly in and out of the internet and within
their own domain

they cannot email each other

i have my internal ms dns setup with mx records to direct each other
to the internal ip addresses

i test on each machine with nslookup and get back the correct routing

can anyone think of any reasons why they are not able to email each
other? your help is appreciated. thanks!

set each one up as a mail relay for the other's domain then have them
forward the mail for the relay domain to the actual mail server for that
domain.
I can't say for sure how to configure them to always accept relayed mail
from the other there should be a setting for this.
This is how I have my two mail servers configured.
LSAOL.COM is a relay for LONESTARAMERICA.COM
LONESTARAMERICA.COM is a relay for LSAOL.COM
Then they just forward mail to the other and both are configure to accept
always accept mail from the other.

 

[Nathan J Zafar]

thank you

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set each one up as a mail relay for the other's domain then have them
forward the mail for the relay domain to the actual mail server for that
domain.
I can't say for sure how to configure them to always accept relayed mail
from the other there should be a setting for this.
This is how I have my two mail servers configured.
LSAOL.COM is a relay for LONESTARAMERICA.COM
LONESTARAMERICA.COM is a relay for LSAOL.COM
Then they just forward mail to the other and both are configure to accept
always accept mail from the other.

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

NJZ> they cannot email each other

What do the error messages say ?

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