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From: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
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Coming into this late, but wondering how your sendmail is set up? Have
you
turned off the (default) half hourly mail delivery check in sysconfig?
The other thing that will trigger it is having your off-site "default"
gateway
configured.

bob


>Bryan K. Ogawa wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Richard Levenberg wrote:
>
> > > Try using a DNS server and adding these other machines's IP
> addresses
> > > (reverses, the numeric in-arpa ones) to your name server database.
>
> >
> > I tried this to no avail.  Thank you for your reply.  My domain.db
> looks
> > like:
> >
> > @     IN SOA mydomain.com. root.mydomain.com. (
> >                               970727  ; Serial
> >                               3600    ; Refresh
> >                               300     ; Retry
> >                               3600000 ; Expire
> >                               3600 )  ; Minimum
> >       IN NS gateway.mydomain.com.
> >
> > gateway.mydomain.com. IN A    192.168.0.100
> > machost.mydomain.com. IN A    192.168.0.101
> > notebook.mydomain.com.        IN A    192.168.0.103
> >
> > $ORIGIN 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA
> >       IN NS   gateway.mydomain.com.
> > 100   IN PTR  gateway.mydomain.com.
> > 101   IN PTR  machost.mydomain.com.
> > 103   IN PTR  notebook.mydomain.com.
> >
> > $ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA
> >       IN NS   gateway.mydomain.com.
> > 1     IN PTR  localhost.mydomain.com.
>
> When you invoke ftp, do you invoke via the full name, or via the
> hostname,
> or via IP?  Does changing this change the behavior?
>
> if your modem is off, DNS is on, and you type "host 192.168.0.103" on
> the
> gateway, do you dial out?
>
> As for the ftp server, I'm wondering if it does some sort of sanity
> checking (I know that Netscape, for example, does "sanity checks"
> which
> involve external DNS lookups).
>
> bryan k ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>
> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/



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