Re: Is this a DNS issue?

[Nayyar Ahmed <nayyares@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:47:55 -0400, Gururajan Ramachandran <grr@tyx.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The SMTP email server on my Debian Woody machine responds to:
> 
> telnet mymachine.mydomain.com 25    from the LAN
> telnet mymachine 25    from the LAN
> telnet IP_address 25    from the LAN
> 
> On the server (mymachine) itself, this is what happens:
> 
> telnet mymachine.mydomain.com 25    does not respond
> telnet mymachine 25    does not respond

this error it telling that your server machine is listening on 
localhost i.e 127.0.0.1 , so please check your configuration 
of mail server and make it to listen on server ip as well.

  as for as your DNS concern , i think it not the fault of 
your DNS.

> telnet mymachine_IP_address 25    does not respond
> telnet localhost 25        it DOES respond
> telnet 127.0.0.1 25       it DOES respond
> 
> The /etc/hosts has:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> Private_IP_address   mymachine.mydomain.com mymachine
> 
> The /etc/resolv.conf has:
> 
> search mydomain.com
> nameserver LAN_DNS_IP_address
> 
> Could you please tell me how I can resolv this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guru
> 
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