chim@eceimg.ncsu.edu (Bill Chimiak) (02/15/90)
When sending mail on my 3B2/600 using mail or mailx, if the machine cannot find it (I imagine in /etc/hosts), the mail comes back. Now one solution is for me to duplicate the /etc/hosts table on our reginal nameserver. This would be quite taxing on our machines resources. A more desireable solution would be to use a NAMESERVER mechanism as Berkeley-like systems provide. The proceedure I would like is the following: o send email to user@destination.whatever o if destination.whatever is not in my host table, the email is then forwarded to the NAMESERVER o the NAMESERVER then sends the email to destination.whatever. Also required is the response from user@destination.whatever to return to my 3B2/600. One could do the following: If one had a machine on one's network, smart_machine, that had access to a NAMESERVER mechanism, then sending email to user@destination.whatever@smart_machine would easily get mail out but cause intermittent problems receiving replies. Has someone solved this problem? Thanks in advance.
fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6561110~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~) (02/20/90)
In article <1990Feb15.153534.23100@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> chim@eceimg.ncsu.edu (Bill Chimiak) writes: >When sending mail on my 3B2/600 using mail or mailx, if the machine >cannot find it (I imagine in /etc/hosts), the mail comes back. Now one >solution is for me to duplicate the /etc/hosts table on our reginal >nameserver. This would be quite taxing on our machines resources. A >more desireable solution would be to use a NAMESERVER mechanism as >Berkeley-like systems provide. I believe WIN 3.0 products have this functionality. I remember that when I loaded both the 3B and 386 products they ask you if you want to load the name server software. However, I believe it checks the nameserver FIRST, since when I installed the name server software and didn't administer it telnet and rlogin waited for the nameserver to time out (about 30 seconds) before checking /etc/hosts. Hope this was what you were looking for, -- Frank McGee, AT&T Entry Level Systems Support attmail!fmcgee (preferred) att!cuuxb!fmcgee (those that can't reach attmail)