On Saturday 14 June 2003 14:11, Joe wrote:Absolutely! I have a RH9 box that acts as mail server, dns server and samba server for my small home network. I also have a wireless print server. My network is abbey.cxm, and all 6 devices (3 linux boxes, 1 XP box, 1 wireless switch and the print server) are all named and appear in my local DNS server. So, the mail server is cadfael.abbey.cxm, my workstation is cjmachine.abbey.cxm, my test box is winifred.abbey.cxm, my wife's workstation is ajmachine.abbey.cxm, the switch is gateway.abbey.cxm and the print server is hplaser.abbey.cxm. The network is of the 192.168.0.0 variety; cadfael, for example, is 192.168.0.3. The DNS server is a caching server as well, so internet addresses get cached for fast lookup, and that keeps the requests down to my ISP's DNS server.
edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
As far as I know I'm not running named. I am not using
sendmail (at least it was never my intention) for the
host name. I really don't have a qualified domain
name.
This is where I'm a little bit fuzzy.
If I named this machine "bonsai", does this something
got setup to send mail to this domain?
In general, sendmail expects any system that sends or recieves mail to be a legitimate host with a legitimate internet address and fqdn - and resolvable forwards and backwards.
Most of this is justifiable for security reasons, but it's also just part of the culture.
Joe
I've seen examples in textbooks using names like "my.domain.lan" Anybody actually using such a domain name and making it work ??
Joebewan
My DNS server is authoritative for the abbey.cxm domain and has both forward and reverse lookup capabilities. It was pretty straightforward to get it up and running.
Cheers-- Charles
