Re: Smail / Sendmail
First option:
If I remember correctly, during Sendmail install, it asks if you
would like to have Sendmail forward all mail to another address.
Simply give it the IP of the Win95 box and configure Sendmail NOT
to use DNS. The /etc/hosts file should do what you need.
Second option:
Using a Linux box as a router,DNS, and Internet Gateway via ISDN
is our exact configuration. Not only will it work, but very well.
There are several things to consider but it works flawlessly after
setup.
1) Depending on your ISDN TA, you'll want it to establish your
connection to your provider and re-establish that connection
if disconnected for any reason. (A few assumptions sorry)
2) Setup DNS. A whole book written on this subject. Not too
large a mountain though.
3) Configure your network to use the Linux Box as your
gateway. (We have both Win95 and Win31 boxes that
access the internet through our LINUX GATEWAY.
Working these items individually should yield your final option.
Regards, Jeff
At 10:35 PM 10/1/96 +0000, ttrimble wrote:
>Ok, here's the problem folks.
>
>1. The only computer in our LAN that has access to the Internet is a
>Win95 system, so it can't run DNS.
>
>2. Smail and Sendmail on all the Debian boxes tell me they can't
>deliver mail without DNS.
>
>3. I've tried every combination known to man, for the configuration
>of DNS on any of the Debian boxes, and I just can't get it to work.
>
>I seems like this would be easy, but I'm not even sure it's possible.
>This is what I want to do.
>The Win95 box is connected to the Internet and handles mail
>transfers, the DNS for the mail server is my ISP. I want to set up a
>Debian box to run as a listserver, getting mail from the mail server
>and sending all mail to the mail server to be sorted and delivered as
>it sees fit. I don't want the Debian box to have any outbound mail
>logic at all, it is to blindly send all mail to the Win95 box, and
>let it figure it out. The other option is to run a local DNS server
>on one of the Debian boxes (for my LAN only), so smail will be able
>to find out where it is to send it's mail, but I can't seem to get
>DNS to work without Internet access. Our final goal is to have one
>of the Debian boxes work as a router and DNS for the local net it
>will have a ISDN connection to the Inet, but I have to be sure all
>this will work before I make the changes.
>
>My e-mail address is ttrimble@tdhs.com
>Please send mail to me direct, instead of to the list. I will give
>FREE homepage and ftp space to anyone that can help me fix there
>problems.
>
>Thank You
>Tim Trimble
>
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