haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) (02/01/91)
Under 4.5.1 of Risc/Os... our mailer died. We now have incomming mail from the net, but cannot send mail out from the box. Does anyone know how I can force the use of dns? I put "host: dns files" in /etc/vis.conf, I even tried "host: dns", but still cannot send mail off the box. All mail returns with "host unknown". Any ideas would be appreciated. Harold.t. -- ====================================================================== ===== ===== === Harold Tomlinson === == Computing and Communications Services == = YORK UNIVERSITY = = haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca = = or haroldt@nexus.yorku.ca = = 416- 736-5257-33802 = ======================================================================
svpillay@idunno.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay) (02/02/91)
In article <HAROLDT.91Jan31110804@paralandra.yorku.ca> haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) writes: > Under 4.5.1 of Risc/Os... our mailer died. We now have incomming mail >from the net, but cannot send mail out from the box. Does anyone know how >I can force the use of dns? I put "host: dns files" in /etc/vis.conf, I >even tried "host: dns", but still cannot send mail off the box. All mail >returns with "host unknown". The RISCos documentation for vis.conf lies. if you change the entry in vis.conf from "host" to "hosts", then it seems to work. Kanthan Pillay Systems Administrator Program in Applied and Computational Math Princeton University Work: (609) 258-6488 Internet: svpillay@Princeton.EDU Home: (609) 396-9004 Bitnet: SVPILLAY@PUCC Fax: (609) 258-1735 uucp: princeton!svpillay