> I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. I'm using a > gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop unwanted traffic and allow > internet access and LAN access to everybody else. Then I have > gashuffer, my main workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend uses, > and an occasional laptop. Now, the question is this: > Without running BIND on hadrian (or elsewhere on the LAN) is there a > way to allow, e.g.: Sounds a lot like my network... > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine now) I assume you mean access hadrian from gashuffer. If so, just add lines like: 192.168.1.1 mystique.kwiqsilver.org mystique 192.168.1.2 sabertooth.kwiqsilver.org sabertooth 192.168.1.3 magneto.kwiqsilver.org magneto to /etc/hosts on each machine. (Use your own domain name of course :).
> > or an exim .forward like > # Exim filter > # -------------- > #Forward all mail to gashuffer > > if $h_From: matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > then > deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] > finish > endif Once exim is able to resolve gashuffer to an IP (after the /etc/hosts fix above), this should work. But if you're sending mail to an account at a specific machine in your network, it should just go straight there. > > I ask because BIND seems more trouble than it's worth, security-wise, > and it's a small LAN that's well served by my ISP's nameservers. > Right now I can't even mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gashuffer's LAN > address) although I'm not sure exim like's those sorts of addresses. > Any pointers to good docs or suggestions welcome. I'd suspect exim is set up incorrectly then. Run eximconfig and set up all your boxes as type 1 (Internet Site). That's how mine is setup. But I have fetchmail running on my mail server pull mail from the other boxes, so I only have one mail account to check. But I then mount the /home dir from that server on all the workstations, so I can check that one account from any box.