Hi, Serge. Actually I thought to have done so. It is clear for me that a transfer agent needs to know about the domains it serves, and as you mentioned in another mail this information cannot be obtained using DNS. But every computer connected on the internet has a resolver library for name to ip address mapping and vice versa, mostly configured by the administrator to use DNS (it could be the hosts file also).
So why does a MTA by itself need to know the DNS server's ip addresses? BTW, I never entered such information and did not see any problems. Hiran ----------------------------------------- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimerstra�e 11 80687 M�nchen Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-89-54742-134 Fax +49-6151-9234-5134 > -----Original Message----- > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:15 PM > To: James Developers List > Subject: Re: Newsgroup integration, and other questions > > > I think you'll find it helpful if you go read about how DNS works. > -- > Serge Knystautas > Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites > http://www.lokitech.com/ > > Chaudhuri, Hiran wrote: > > Hi, David. > > > > Isn't it the operating system's task to determine IP-address and > > DNS-servers? Either the admin configured everything for a > machine, or she > > chose to use DHCP on that. I never understood why a mail > transfer agent like > > James or Sendmail needs special settings for DNS. > > > > Hiran > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Hiran Chaudhuri > > SAG Systemhaus GmbH > > Elsenheimerstra�e 11 > > 80687 M�nchen > > Germany > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Phone +49-89-54742-134 > > Fax +49-6151-9234-5134 > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: David Smiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:47 AM > >>To: James Developers List > >>Subject: Re: Newsgroup integration, and other questions > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>>1: What's so wrong about sending out single innocent DHCP > >>> > >>UDP packet to > >> > >>>>query the DNS server on startup? Is that really so bad? > >>> > >>>Ok, but then what? > >> > >>To find the DNS servers so I don't have to specify this > myself in the > >>configuration. > >> > >>~ David Smiley > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
