RE: (no subject)

[Greg Hastings <gregh () forestenterprise com>]

        What it looks like is a problem I've hit - you may need to set your
DNS settings on the individual PC's on your network to append the ISP's
default suffix (for my ISP it was vic.bigpond.net.au) to the server name.
When you are sending/receiving mail it looks like your mail program is
searching for a server 'mail' (no DNS suffix).  This is WAY too generic - it
needs the fully qualified domain name, for example mail.yahoo.com (ONLY an
example - don't use it).  So change your DNS settings on the PC your are
using to append the ISP's suffix and you should be right. 

        By the way the router settings for ACLS should be allowing SMTP and
POP (ports 25 and 110 respectively).  Not SMTP both ways.  Otherwise sending
mail will work, but you won't be able to fetch at all.

Regards
Greg Hastings
gregh () forestenterprise com



-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Bertrand [mailto:tfbsr () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 4:52 AM
To: jsdy () center osis gov
Cc: dufresne () sysinfo com; firewall-wizards () nfr com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] (no subject)


For example from my pc which is a private IP address (198.162.x.x) I can 
ping www.yahoo.com or from the router which has a routing address I can also

ping www.yahoo.com...the other thing is that I really do not have an ip 
address for the mail server....makes a difference?

Terry


> From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>
> To: Terry Bertrand <tfbsr () hotmail com>
> CC: dufresne () sysinfo com, firewall-wizards () nfr com
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] (no subject)
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:48:38 -0500
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:21:01AM -0500, Terry Bertrand wrote:
> > actually I am allowing DNS access to the router..I can ping domain names

> and
> > IP addresses....
>
> to or through?  ping from where to where by name?  the error message
> that caught my eye was:
>
> ...
> > > > ......The host 'mail' could not be found. ...
> ...
>
> Of course, this is not the most precise error message found.
>
> As I and others have said, instrument your router to determine what
> other protocols are being tried and failing.
>
> --
> Joe Yao                                jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D.
Yao
> OSIS Center Systems Support                                    EMT-B
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>    This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.




Terry


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