[NTLUG:Discuss] mail server question

[Bobby Wrenn]

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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