On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 13:27, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 21:17, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > My home network is 2 machines (sometimes 3) with a network address
> > 192.168.0.0. Internet connection comes by means of an ADSL router
> > and an ethernet 10/100 switch. The machines can talk to each other
> > and swap files via nfs and samba and both can connect to the net.
> >
> > But if I try to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] from machine A, postfix won't play
> > because it can't resolve the name for machine B. Surely postfix
> > isn't designed to be used solely for registered networks? Or
> > should I be using another MTA?
>
> If you have /etc/hosts set up correctly (hostname and full domain
> name {even made up domain}) and /etc/nsswitch.conf set up correctly
> (which it is by default) then you should have no problems. Also,
> could you include a sample of your mail log file for a failed mail?
>
> Jason
>
Thanks for responding so quickly.
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/etc/hosts:
81.86.215.30 81-86-215-30.dsl.pipex.com
192.168.0.3 peter.ruskin peter # Peter's linux/Windows box
192.168.0.4 liese.ruskin liese # Liese's Windows
192.168.0.5 kroh.ruskin kroh # Liese's linux/Windows box
192.168.0.6 penguin.ruskin penguin # Peter's old box
192.168.0.7 peter-peter.ruskin peter-peter # Win4Lin session on peter
192.168.0.8 peter-liese.ruskin peter-liese # Win4Lin session on peter
192.168.0.9 kroh-liese.ruskin kroh-liese # Win4Lin session on kroh
192.168.0.10 kroh-peter.ruskin kroh-peter # Win4Lin session on kroh
127.0.0.1 localhost
# IPV6 versions of localhost and co
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
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/etc/nsswitch.conf: (never looked at this one)
passwd: compat
shadow: compat
group: compat
# passwd: db files nis
# shadow: db files nis
# group: db files nis
hosts: files dns
networks: files dns
services: db files
protocols: db files
rpc: db files
ethers: db files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
bootparams: files
automount: files
aliases: files
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from mail.log:
Oct 3 01:28:13 kroh postfix/qmgr[2084]: D2C2F90F9A:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=316, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 3 01:28:24 kroh postfix/smtp[4250]: D2C2F90F9A:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=11,
status=bounced (Name service error for name=peter.ruskin type=A: Host
not found)
Peter
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