> > Do you have a router / gateway or are hosts with IPs 10.0.0.10 and > 10.0.0.12 connected directly to the net? Anyway, compare the 2 systems > and where the IPs appear make sure they fit the situation which host is > up and running. I don't think I can be helpful any further. What's > needed is reading the configuration files and thinking about the setup. > > > incidently, to make it even more confusing, I'm gonna duck when I tell > > y'all this, but my ip connection is NOT bridged...but PPPoE, granted, > > normally there is no static ips w/a PPPoE connection but seeing that my > > ISP and I have been knowing each other and have been friends since > > before dirt. As a friend deal, he just guarantees me that it will be > > static. But really, this has nothing to do w/the problem at hand. > > All in all this setup scenario sounds dubious to me. > > Alexander well, although, I don't understand specifically what you are doubting about what is actually taking place here it's all cool and I sure thank you for your time w/this. Before I break off this thread, to answer what you asked: yes I have a zoom router which is 10.0.0.1 in this system. it is connected via PPPoE to my ISP. The details of that connection are in the above. The primary dns server is right on this machine or on 10.0.0.12 when it's running. it's a split dns system whereas I have an outside zone that is the only thing public to the world and I have my private "inside" zone that handles my lan. Split DNS is not, how to say, "off the wall" but fully documented in the bind manual. the config word is "view" that does the splitting... so much for dns. Both this server and the problem server 10.0.0.12 call out 10.0.0.1 as the gateway. I think that anything else I could say about it would be just redundancy. Before I brought this problem to this msg list, I had compared and compared between the 2 systems...I just could not find any discrepencies. Now it's time to first connect to port25 w/a dialup and see what I can discover there and then just compare and compare and, as you say, just think it out even more and see what I can discover. I will get it running and will let you know what the problem was. Thx for all, John Rose -- Trust Everyone. Just make sure you brand your cattle.
