On Wednesday 17 January 2001 15:02, Larry Sword wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> What do you have in your /etc/resolv.conf file?
>
That was the right question. Larry. It turns out that my 'search domainname'
statement was wrong. Kmail now works using 'mail' instead of 'hard-code ip
address'.
Thanks,
Collins
