[NTLUG:Discuss] mail server question

[Bug Hunter]

  your mail is picked up with pop3.  not sendmail.  try editing
hosts.allow and allow people to use ipop3d from the 192 subnet

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> 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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