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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Monday 25 July 2005 20:53, nodata wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:51 +0200, Johan Lozano wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > hi list,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > i have a problem with mail in my network.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > when i send an email from one box to an other, the mail do not arrive.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > even from the command-line</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > mail johan@mbfrodo</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">How are you doing lookups for 'mbfrodo'?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Can you do a ping mbfrodo?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If it sais unknown host, then you should either run a name server on your </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">local network (if it is big enough) and have it keep track of all internal </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hostnames, or, if your network is only a few computers, and they have fixed </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ip's, edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following line</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">iptofrodo fulladdressoffrodo mbrfodo</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">An example, in our network, all computernames are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">name.vlaamse-kern.com</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">then to reach our giga server, by just typing giga, we have the following in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hosts</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">192.168.0.20 giga.vlaamse-kern.com giga</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">HTH</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Andy</FONT>
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ping is ok to the 3 boxes
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