Try putting the IP address in brackets.  eg, "[192.168.1.1]".

                                                                         -Du 
-Dustin

At 12:31 AM 10/25/99 , Nenita Manaois wrote:

>hi!
>
>i have just installed qmail on my linux machine.  it has no running dns,
>though but instead using an upstream dns server to resolve domain names.
>i do not have a registered domain name for my server so my email address
>shld be:  <user>@<my ip address>.
>
>internal sending of mails is no problem.  however, when i try to send
>messages to remote clients and vice versa, the message could not be
>delivered.  on my remote machines, the message says "host unknown" for my
>ip address.
>
>here's my control files:
>
>defaultdomain:  (contains the actual ip address of the machine -> x.x.x.x)
>locals:  (same as defaultdomain)
>me : same as defaultdomain
>plusdomain:  (empty)
>rcpthosts:  same as defaultdomain
>
>i am running tcpserver.
>
>pls help.
>
>-nenita

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