DNS and Postfix

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Jun 24 23:52:16 UTC 2004


Abraham Ganem wrote:
> 1.  I have not been able to understan how to setup the DNS.  For
> example, my Domain Name is   university.edu.co,  my host name is
> micity so my whole the Domain name for my Internet Server would be,
> mycity.university.edu.co  , right?

Is your computer supposed to serve DNS to other computers?

In most universities, there will be a Computer Services department
to look after those computers.

I'm guessing that you just want a personal computer. In which case,
I'd get the names of the appropriate 
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> How do I configure that?  
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> 2.  I'm using Postfix as my MTA,  I'm able to send mail's to my yahoo account. but I get this address in th FROM line in Yahoo:  FROM: aganeml at localhost.localdomain
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> I'm using Webmin and I sended the eMail from there,  In the FROM line in Webmin, it has aganeml at www.university.edu.co.  I tried deleting manualy the www in that address and I got ir right in my Yahoo messege (aganeml at univeristy.edu.co).  In the /etc/host I have 
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> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain www.cecar.edu.co localhost www
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> What I'm I doing wrong?  I'm sorry if my questions are to simple, but I?m just getting started, so one again thanks for your patience.
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> Abraham
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