Re: [SLE] Sending Mail on the LAN (SUSE 8.0)

(Ted Harding) wrote:

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I'd suggest setting these in the /etc/hosts file which should look like

127.0.0.1 localhost lh 192.168.0.1 mach1.dons.dom.ain mach1 m1 192.168.0.2 mach2.dons.dom.ain mach2 m2 192.168.0.3 mach3.dons.dom.ain mach3 m3

and so on.

My hosts file looks more like: 127.0.0.1 localhost lh 192.168.0.1 mach1.dom.ain mach1 192.168.0.2 mach2.dom.ain mach2 192.168.0.3 mach3.dom.ain mach3 My /etc/hosts.conf is the same. I am attempting to send e-mail as - To: user2@mach2.dom.ain And therein is where my problem likely lies. I need to rename the domain, so that the domain name is something like dons.dom.ain, instead of dom.ain. Would that be correct? Don

Also, make sure that in /etc/host.conf you have the lines

order hosts bind multi on

Your machine should then look up name-to-IP translations by first looking in /etc/hosts and only then, if this fails, by attempting to find another nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf

*Note* that /etc/host.conf can get re-written by SuSEConfig.

In /etc/hosts, the first field is of course the IP address of a machine, the second is its full name (FQDN), and the rest are abbreviations ("nicknames") which you should be able to use locally.

E.g.

telnet m2

should initiate a telnet connection to 192.168.0.2

(I'm a bit of a freak for very short names. For instance, I've made an alias "tl" for "telnet", so "tl lh" is a telnet to localhost. Likewise, I have a nickname "ns" in /etc/hosts for my external mail host nessie.mcc.ac.uk, so when online I can do "tl ns". Etc.)

Hoping this breaks the final barrier! Ted.

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