Hi Juergen,
On host terminal:
# ping server1.domain.com[code]
ping: unknown host server1.domain.com
# ping 192.168.0.xxx (server IP)
PING 192.168.0.xxx (192.168.0.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.xxx: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=3.65 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.xxx: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.161 ms
....
On server (VM) terminal:
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (ISP nameserver IP)
nameserver 192.168.0.1
B.R.
Stephen L
>________________________________
> From: Juergen Nickelsen <juergen.nickel...@fu-berlin.de>
>To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com>; Squirrelmail User Support Mailing List
><squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] fail to contact squirrelmail running domain
>
>On 01/27/12 10:35, Stephen Liu wrote:
>
>> Squirrelmail is running on a VM (guest). It can be contacted on the
>> host by running;
>>
>> http://ip/webmail
>>
>> But unable to contact it running:
>> http://server1.domain.com/webmail
>
>Hello Stephen,
>
>with "ip" I assume you mean the numerical IP address.
>
>Please state the exact error (including error message, if there is any)
>you get, otherwise it cannot be more than guesswork. Anyway, I can
>*guess* two potential issues here:
>
>(a) DNS mapping for the server domain name to the ip address. If the
>error messsage in the browser is something like "The server at
>server1.domain.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed"
>(example from Chrome here), this is the problem. Check if the domain
>name correctly resolves to the server IP address *at the client*.
>
>(b) Named virtual host in the HTTP server configuration. If you get
>other content in the browser instead of the webmail interface, this may
>be the problem. Check if there is perhaps the wrong virtual host
>configured for that domain name in the server configuration.
>
>Regards, Juergen.
>
>--
>Juergen Nickelsen <juergen.nickel...@fu-berlin.de>
>Freie Universitaet Berlin, Zentraleinrichtung fuer Datenverarbeitung
>Fabeckstrasse 32, 14195 Berlin, Telefon +49.30.838-50740
>
>
>
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