IN your /etc/resolv.conf file, do you have the IP address of your Linux
box as a valid server?
If your server knows to look to itself as a DNS server, and is
authoritative for its own domain, your systems, looking to that machine
as their name server, should be able to resolve the local domain just
fine.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Enrico Payne wrote:
> Hi, I have a RH6.2 box acting as a mail/DNS server. Although each client on
> my network (Win95) has the mail/DNS server list in the it's host file, as
> well as other servers on the local network, when my link to the Internet
> goes down, my DNS stops working, and none of my clients can send e-mail to
> the mail server (local server in sam IP network). All clients are using MS
> Outlook Express to as a mail client, and the server is using Sendmail and
> Bind8.2.2 (as per RH6.2 release).
>
> What do I need to do in order to allow my mail clients to send to the mail
> server even if the internet link is down?
>
> Regards
> Enrico
>
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