OK I solved my own thread :) Sorry for the noise... there are sooo many ways/distro scripts (so it seems to me anyway) to do the same thing. I had a different default gateway specified in /etc/sysconfig/network than in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ files.
Don't know how it messed me up in this particular instance, but my toaster is working again :) David. > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:37 AM > To: Qmail Toaster > Subject: [toaster] Weird problem... > > > Hi all, > > First of all sorry this is a little off topic and may not be entirely > qmail-related, but I am stuck with this one and wondered if anyone else on > here has had the same experience. > > I have the latest version of Bill's toaster installed on a redhat 9 box, > which also happens to be my internet gateway. Today, I find that > I am unable > to send/receive e-mail using the DNS name of the qmail server > (mail.mydomain.net) from the LAN attached to my gateway. I have > checked the > obvious; address resolves fine, internet access is fine, run a > test without > any firewall rules. > > The weird thing is that I can send/receive mail fine if I put in the > internal IP address of the gateway. > > I know this is the type of question that comes up a hundred times > from 'new > users', and the answer is always an obvious one (one thing I like about > Linux as opposed to Window$ is that there's always a _reason_ for > something > not working that I can _find_ and _fix_) but I just can't figure > out what it > is in this case. It's getting rather desperate since my users are > one by one > beginning to experience this difficulty. > > Thanks for you posts, > > David. > > > > !DSPAM:42f96147216241747669939! > >
