Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:57:02 Nic Baxter wrote: >> > 3. Able to authenticate as above if using ip number instead, which makes >> > sense, since in office wifi and mail server on same subnet (192.168.1.X) >> >> Hi Daniel >> I suggest this is not an issue with the server but with the client. >> My suggestion would be to ping the mail server using the domain name and >> see if it resolves. It might also be a good idea to run ipconfig /flushdns > > It sounds like the DNS has the external IP address and the routers > aren't setup to allow connections to the external address from inside > the organisation. > > The best thing to do is to configure NAT on a router to redirect the > external IP to the internal IP. It will be tempting to have separate > internal and external views in the DNS, but don't do that, it causes > lots of pain in the long term.
Or split-horizon DNS. (It's not nice, but IMO NAT is worse.) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
