Why does a mail server get a DHCP address?! Static is the only way to go for servers, static IP, hard coded DNS (no dynamic), etc.
David M. --- Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, among other things there were DNS gremlins at work at Lucent > today partially leading to my inability to get mail into the box. The > lucent mail edge processor box is on one network while the mail server > is on another network. The mail server got a new DHCP address from the > local server and what I think happened was the DNS server on the edge > network may not have known the ip address of the new server. > > Oh well, I'm heading back there tomorrow to see if I can fix everything. > > Fun. > > Greg > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
