ke, 2010-10-27 kello 22:20 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: <--SNIP--> > > When I tried to get my modem/router to email its logs to a computer in > my LAN, and went through similar problems. The router would try to use > the DNS servers it knew about (the ones the ISP sets up through DHCP), > and obviously they couldn't resolve my LAN addresses. But, I gather > from your first message that your router is a computer, not a device, so > your problem ought to be different. > > I think you want to check that each computer in the equation can resolve > its own name, and the other computer's. Avoid using "localhost" as part > of the mail addresses. How to check it? > > On my LAN, I have a DNS server that all the computers use, and it has > all the local machine names in its records. It solved a lot of name > issues, and freed me from ever having to mess around with hosts files, > again. > If it's possible I would like not to create my own DNS server. Looking for simple way to solve my problem. > The [bracketing] the IP address after the @ sign ought to work, to use > an IP address without name lookups, but I don't know if everything does > that trick. In my case it seemingly doesn't work. > > Where are you seeing the error messages? The SMTP server logs from > where you're trying to send from, trying to receive at, or something > else? in /var/log/maillog on F12 computer (the router). > > Later on you mention a "user unknown" error. Are you accidentally > trying to send mail out using your ISP's SMTP server? > I saw it when I was trying to send message to <user>@[192.168.3.30]. If I send mail to <user>@192.168.3.30 there's no such error in mailog but message is returned by MAILER-DAEMON to root. Thanks for your help, Tim! -- I stick my neck out for nobody. -- Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca" -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
