Search Again: Re: Windows and QuickDNS From: micaelac Date: Monday, June 11, 2001 Time: 6:08:00 pm I had the same problem when running ASIP with PC's on the network. Our setup was: ASIP 6.3, private network (using NAT) behind a firewall, PC's running also NETBEUIE and Microsoft Network as well as TCP/IP. They could not recieve or send mail, though all the macs could. I created PTR records for each PC. It's clunky, but it works. -- Micaela M. Carr IT Manager C&T Publishing <http://www.ctpub.com> 925-677-0377, ext. 241 > 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