Search Again: Re: Windows and QuickDNS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, June 8, 2001 Time: 9:50:57 am David, I'm afraid I don't know what the problem is, then; my attempts to deduce the source of the problem solely from your description obviously led me to some incorrect assumptions. Your mail server is refusing to talk to your Windows machines, but not your Macs. This frankly doesn't sound like a DNS problem. - You say you have your mail server configured to permit "local hosts". Does this mean you have configured it with a subnet specification, or with individual hostnames and/or IP addresses, or does it just say "local hosts"? If the latter, do you have any idea how it determines this? - Your mail server complains about misconfigured PTR records for your Windows machines, but not for your Macs. Yet you don't have PTR records for your Macs. This may be because of the previous item - if ASIP is using some Mac-specific way of determining what a "local host" is, then it may consider the Windows machines to be non-local, which means it does a PTR record check. Either way, you should consider creating PTR records for all of your machines (Mac OS and Windows alike). ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! At 11:36 AM -0400 6/8/01, Dave Cooper wrote: >Ok, > >1. I've never deleted any local hosts. They have always stayed there. I >would note that I do not see a local host in the host list with the internal >DNS name of the mail server. If I add it it shows up as a nonlocal host of >course. Local hosts are added automatically. > >Would it be true to assume that if I had the DNS server configured properly >that this internal DNS name would show up automatically as a localhost? > >2. I do not have a separate PTR for each Mac. The only such records that >exist are for servers. > > >I would like to apologize to the list for quoting the entire digest on my >last post. > > >Thanks, > >Dave > > > >David R. Cooper >Information Systems Manager >Acton Institute >161 Ottawa Ave. NW >Suite 301 >Grand Rapids, MI 49503 >e-mail: dcooper@acton.org >phone: 616-454-3442 >fax: 616-454-9454 >http://www.acton.org/

Messages In This Thread: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:02:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by andrew on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:27:52 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 2:33:14 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Aaron Lynch on Jun 6, 2001 at 3:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 4:03:36 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:37:11 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 9:55:57 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 8, 2001 at 8:36:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 8, 2001 at 9:50:57 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Sam Narayanan on Jun 10, 2001 at 12:35:08 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by micaelac on Jun 11, 2001 at 6:08:00 pm