On Sat, Sep 04, 2004, James Gregory wrote: > I have found the best solution to this problem is to set my outgoing > mailserver to 'mail' and let whatever resolver DHCP gives me work it > out. Most admins seem to be nice enough to give these generic names to > things. Likewise 'ntp' for ntp etc. I realise this doesn't do what you > want, but it does work pretty well.
Unfortunately, I've found that about 50% of DHCP networks I'm using have the following problems: 1. They don't even hand out IP addresses for their nameservers (in many cases, this means findout who their ISP is, and finding out manually -- somehow -- where their ISP's nameservers are) 2. *They* aren't blocking port 25, their ISP is. And since they don't even hand out IP addresses for their nameserver, you never get the searchpath name either... So, unfortunately this is only useful where your DHCP provider is not a "I think I just all the defaults on, I mean, I plugged it in and it seemed to work great!" Linksys wireless router owner. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
