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Re: [SLE] Name service problems.
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:13:59 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011509480.2882-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The 03.06.28 at 20:42, Clifford wrote:

> I have a tiny network (3 machines) and therefore have chosen not to use a DNS
> as i really don't need it.

Having a local dns saves external network traffic and speeds up some
things.

> I thought everything was going well as i had defined all machines in
> /etc/hosts and i could ping them using hostname.mydomain .
> I started fiddling around with my postfix config and found a problem
> delivering local mail. I soon found out that "hosts kananga.mydomain" fails.

Mail delivery requires a working DNS; the query:

host -t MX kananga.mydomain

must work.

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson



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