Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:06:52 +0100 From: Cees van de Griend <cees-list@griend.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20001118200652.A10833@griend.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: [SLE] FW: Machine names and email. Hello Tim, On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:31:37AM -0800, Tim Schall wrote:

I'm trying to set up a firewall/email/ftp/web server. What I want to end up with is a single machine that performs all of these tasks. I've got all but a couple of issues resolved.

Personally I think this is a bad idea. I like a firewall to be striped to a minimum. The less tasks on a firewall the less can go wrong or be cracked.

The machines name is 'router.forgirlfriend.tzo.com' I can send mail to grover@router.fortgirlfriend.tzo.com. I'd also like to be able to send email to grover@mail.fortgirlfriend.tzo.com and grover@fortgirlfriend.tzo.com and have it all end up in the same place. How do I accomplish this?

You gave too little information. The main questions are: Which smtp-server are you running? Which dms-server are you runing? The dns-server is used to find all the computers, the smtp-server must be told te accept the mail for all these names.

Second, I want the machine to mount several nfs shares from my internal file server. It is the firewall machine and will not mount the shares that reside on the internal computer. It times out with a 'mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out' message. Get the laptop out and it mounts the same shares just fine from inside the network. They just won't mount on the firewall computer.

Sounds to me that the firewall is blocking the mount. How have you configured your firewall? Regards, Cees.