Re: Mail won't leave system
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:05:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> In the last couple of days I'v suddenly been unable to send out mail
> (I'm sending this from a different machine).
>
> I'm using Slink, with smail. I have two ISPs (Freeserve and Demon); it
> happens with both. I get an error message "BIND server failure".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Check aither your /etc/resolv.conf on this machine, and your DNS server,
one is broken, so the ISP's addresses cannot be resolved.
/etc/resolv.conf must contain:
domain mydomain
search myserver.mydomain mydomain
nameserver 192.168.1.1 (if its your svr IP address, of course :)
JY
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to the irrelevant.
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