Search Again: TCP/IP name servers settings From: Gabriele Polidori Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 Time: 3:37:37 am Hello, we have 1 Mac [147.123.181.20] used both as mail server (EIMS) and DNS (QDNS Pro). We are authoritative for our zone 'onenet.it', and we also have a rDNS zone (the same has our ISP). Now, I noticed that due to a little error (now corrected) in the rDNS of our ISP, EIMS couldn't retrieve the correct name of the mail server. So I'd like to know a few things: 1) does EIMS use the tcp/ip control panel settings to determine its name ? 2) why doesn't EIMS check if there's a dns server running on the same IP and why it doesn't use the name set in the domain pref window as primary ? 3) both for EIMS and QDNS: is it better to use our own IP in the tcp/ip or our provider ones or both ? This machine is used as dns and mail server also by people on our LAN and clients checking their e-mail from elsewhere. Thank you for your help, Gabriele Polidori PS: I'm in digest mode, so please reply directly to me :) -- OneNET Group - Servizi Internet via San Francesco 28/c 34133 Trieste - Italy Tel: +39 040 771190 Fax: +39 040 3726154 http://www.onenet.it/

Messages In This Thread: TCP/IP name servers settings by Gabriele Polidori on Aug 23, 2002 at 3:37:37 am