> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > mail isn't a problem, outgoing mail gets queued until the queue is
> > run (via sendmail -q), and local mail is delivered immediatelty.
> >
> > Connecting from clients is the problem.
>
> Yup, sounds like DNS like you said. I believe the problem is that your
> clients are using external DNS. If they're linux systems, a quick fix is
> to add all the machines in your network to the /etc/hosts on each of the
> clients. There's a similar ../etc/hosts file for winnt. I don't know
> about other OSs but you may be forced to run named on your server which
> opens up another whole can of worms, but in the end is the best solution.
>
Another problem can be sendmail looking for the IP address of your
diald interface. I do not fully understand this, but I have found
that if you see lines like...
Jun 9 01:03:21 zeus sendmail[2860]: gethostbyaddr() failed for 192.168.0.1
When diald brings up the link, you may have to add the IP address
that failed to /etc/hosts.
This fixed nightly dialing on two of my machines.
Note I am using slirp at the other end.
-- cary
> Ed
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