Are you typing in the fully qualified domain name? ie: mail.home.net (or
similar)?
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Collins Richey
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] DNS anomally host mail.
I have experienced the same result on 7.1 and 7.2 (just installed today).
My home pc network consists of a WinME PC connected to the att@home (cable)
network and a secondary PC that is dual boot Win98/linux. Everything works
well on either linux or Win98 - dns location of urls, netscape, mail, etc.,
except.
att@home uses a single host for the POP3 incoming mail and the SMTP outgoing
mail, and this host is named 'mail'.
When I ping mail on either windows, I get the appropriate ip address for
'mail'. Running on linux I get 'host not found', and thus I have to hard
code the ip address in Kmail, etc.
Any clues?
Thanks,
Collins Richey
Denver area
