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Short names for Long Domains?

From Green, David on Tue, 12 Oct 1999

Gentlemen,

I have a COMCAST modem and ipmasq and everything connects and runs

fine (http browsing, ICQ, realaudio) except my MS mail can't find the pop and smtp servers "mail" and the news server "news." I can ping the long address mail.etntwn1.nj.home.com or the IP address, but I can't ping "mail" nor can my mail client (Outlook express) find "mail" or "news". Have you seen a similar problem and how did you solve it?

Umm ... so why don't you configure MS Mail to use mail.etntwn1.nj.home.com and news.etntwn1.nj.home.com (the long names) instead of trying to use the the short names.

If your domain was set to "etntwn1.nj.home.com" then the bare hostnames should work. Under Linux or UNIX you could add directives to your /etc/resolv.conf file to force it to search additional domains. I don't know how to do that under Win '9x or NT (or even it it's possible for them).

So, try that.

RE: Comcast and IPmasq

From Green, David on Tue, 12 Oct 1999

Jim,

why don't you configure MS Mail to use mail.etntwn1.nj.home.com and news.etntwn1.nj.home.com

I tried that already. The problem was apparently that somone hacked our local comcast mail and news servers so they were off line for a day or so. Everything works great now. Thanks.

--David Green

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Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 48 December 1999

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