[NTLUG:Discuss] mail server question

[Bobby Wrenn]

I'm sure the answer is in therer somewhere. I just don't know how to
decypher it.

My internal name server is 192.168.1.254 I have my isp's name server as
secondary name server. With that I think I should be able to resolve
internal hosts with my bogus domain and everything else using the
external name server. Right now I can't use an internal machine to pick
up mail on the mail server (sendmail). Sendmail is running on
192.168.1.1 port 25. From 192.168.1.3 I get " Unknown error 4294967295"
when I try to pick up mail with kmail.

Any ideas?
Bobby

Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>   I think that you need a .com or .net at the end.  I am not positive
> about that, since things like .cx resolve out in the real world. Having a
> bogus domain name is not a problem. Having a real
> domain name is not a problem, as long as your named thinks it is the
> authoritive server for that domain.  You simply won't be able to access
> that domain in the real world, effectively cutting it off for your
> machines (but only your machines).  asking for machines in that domain
> will cause your dns server to answer with whatever is in the file you
> provided. :)
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> 
> > The internal domain is nes.home (bogus on purpose). Will the bogus
> > domain cause problems? How does having .home instead of .com effect the
> > settings below?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bobby
> >
> > Bug Hunter wrote:
> > >
> > >    you need to set up the standard named. make a private address (you can
> > > use 192.168.10.x) and make mail.nest.com be your mail sever machine per
> > > your named settings.  if you can ping mail.nest.com from another machine
> > > on the network, then you have it set up right.  This assumes you put your
> > > /etc/resolv.conf file to point to your machine for its dns.
> > >
> > >  assuming mail.nest.com is 192.168.10.10, and it is running your dns
> > > server, then
> > >
> > > resolv.conf has:
> > >
> > > search nest.com
> > > nameserver 192.168.10.10
> > >
> > >   if you are running redhat:
> > >
> > > /etc/sendmail.cw has:
> > >
> > > nest.com
> > > mail.nest.com
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> > >
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