Time to throw my oar in...
Cable modems give you an address via the DHCP protocol. Some of the numbers
they give you are:
IP address
DNS server ip address
gateway
The Domain Name Server address they give you gets you on Their Server. Their
server has an alias for "mail" and "news" to point to their mail and news
servers. Netscape comes with an account set up for mail at "mail" and news at
"news". You can open a command prompt on your WinDoze box and type ipconfig
/all to get all the numbers given you (Win98, Win98SE, Winnt, Win2k). For
Win95 you must use winipcfg.
Once you get this number, you could put it into /etc/hosts
If you have noticed your netscape will not allow you to erase the server
"news", you can use this trick yourself to just use the unremovable default to
make your connection (Rather than have two servers listed).
Without the DNS server, there is nothing "Local" about anything on a LAN.
Your machine won't find anything without an address server of some kind. Even
if this is only an entry in /etc/hosts.
Here is a funny: On one of my Mankdrake 7.0 boxes my /etc/hosts file reads
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
and when I start X it complains it can't find it's own address. Simple fix
but I find it amusing...
Jon Hunter
NT Domain Administrator / PC fixit dude
bosco wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by this either.. But in my netscape in Windows
> it just says "mail", for news it says "news". It's because with cable
> modems it's similar/the same as being on a LAN and you wouldn't need a DNS
> appropriate address to access the "local" mailserver..
>
> thanks,
>
> bosco().
>
> Todd Guse wrote:
>
> > When you say "mail" you mean "mail.netscape.net" right?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bosco
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 3:59 PM
> > To: newbies
> > Subject: [newbie] "mail" server
> >
> > Greetings again,
> >
> > Here's yet another problem. I'm an @home user. In WinDOZE the mail
> > server in Netscape is merely "mail". Well I've tried this in Netscape in
> > Linux to no avail. Anyone know what to do?! Currently I am using
> > netmail.home.com as my mail server, and it works mostly, but I'd like to
> > use the "intended" one if possible.. Thanks!
> >
> > bosco().
