Hello Chris
On 23-Feb-01, you wrote:
>> Though it is possible that they've called their mail server just "mail"
>
> Actually I think it's a lookup kind of thing and not the client appending.
> Pinging "mail" should return the full name, and the IP. He could try both
> in YAM. I just did it on a clone connected to @home and got "Pinging
> femail.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.85]"
>
That's right, it is a DNS thing. Unless you add a dot at the end of an
address (a fully qualified domain name), then the resolver assumes that
it's relative to some domain other than the root.
The easiest way to add a default domain name for resolution purposes is to
add your ISPs domain into the domains database.
There is usually another way to sepcify the default domain, but it doesn't
seem to work in Miami - the default domain name is the machines host name
without the host node. So if the host name was
linzi.firewall.co.uk.
then the default domain would be
firewall.co.uk.
Steve
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