Does your DNS client on that machine work at all? :-)
Markus Kirsten On m�ndag, februari 11, 2002, at 01:31 , SUBSCRIBE SERVLET-INTEREST Lucy wrote: > Hi, > I've been happily mailing from servlets, simple emails using Hunter and > com.oreilly. Recently, everything was moved to a new standalone > webserver (Linux running Apache, ATomcat and MySQL), and seemed to be > fine. Two problems have now come up, one I've solved, one I haven't. > > 1. The servlets connecting to the database (Apache Tomcat and MySQL) > suddenly couldn't find the DB, UnknownHost, although it's on the same > webserver as the servlet engine. I changed the servlet references from > the DB's .com name to its actual IP, and solved the problem. > > 2. Servlets are now failing to email out (they could before the move), > can't find the mailserver - which is set up on a separate server. I > don't have the IP number for the SMTP mailserver, just the .com > address. Where Hunter refers to 'assume localhost', I'd been happily > referencing the mailserver name, not the IP, and it worked OK. > Have I really got to set up some sort of mailserver on the standalone > webserver (Linux running Apache) for the servlets to mail out? > > Cheers, Lucy > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
