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- Path: sparky!uunet!anomaly.sbs.risc.net!kd1hz
- From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan)
- Subject: Re: sendmail problems with SLIP
- Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:43:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.104327.28885@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
- References: <BuBJG0.Mvp@creare.creare.com>
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- gda@creare.creare.com (Gray Abbott) writes:
-
- >We're not running a local name server. When SLIP is up, a machine on
- >the Internet provides name service; when SLIP is down, we use
- >/etc/hosts.
-
- Are you running NAMED when SLIP is up? If you are not, then your
- /etc/hosts file is still being used for IP address resolution.
-
- Using another machine on the Internet for nameservice is no excuse for not
- running a local nameserver. At the very minimum you would want to configure
- your local nameserver with the machine names of your local machines, so
- that mail gets properly delivered. Otherwise, what will happen is
- mail will get routed to your smart-host, and that host may have no clue
- as to how to forward it to the machines on your LAN.
-
-
- MD
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