Re: tlug: Internet connections from Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Rex Walters writes:  (on 14 Oct 98)
> 
> > >>>>> Neil Booth writes:  (on 12 Oct 98)
> > 
> > > However, I'm unable to configure Netscape to send mail, because when I
> > > put "mail.iname.com" as my outgoing mail server and press OK, it
> > > complains about the host not being found.
> > 
> > Ah.  I see what is going on.  Netscape is asking for the name of a
> > *server* that it can send smtp requests to.  The only dns records for
> > mail.iname.com are MX records -- no CNAME or A records.  So when
> > netscape tries to convert mail.iname.com to an IP address it fails.  Try
> > using "mail.globecomm.net" (or one of its IP addresses) instead -- it's
> > a valid MX for iname.com.
> 
> Yeesh.  I must have been hallucinating.  There is an A record for
> mail.iname.com, but there is also an MX record.  Ask your ISP what you
> should use as your SMTP server.

It could also be that Neil doesn't have a nameserver listed in
/etc/resolv.conf -- the 'magic nameserver'[1] thing doesn't always work,
you know :) 


[1] When I helped Rex set up his PPP connection with TL last week, we
connected and DNS lookup seemed to be working, but there was nothing in
/etc/resolv.conf that would indicate that it should - turns out it was the
caching nameserver (bind) running and handling it....

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