When I try pinging the machine which hosts the proxy server I get a response but when I try pinging the machine who's ip address I have given in the dns server address the message I get is "network unreachable". -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manish Kathuria Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:15 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Query Regarding Mail Server Vinayak Mahadevan wrote: > I have installed FC5 on a machine which I am planning to use as the > mail server. The machine does not have a direct connection to the > internet but connects through proxy. When I try to retrieve the mail > using fetchmail i get an error saying "Name resolution failure(external mail server url)" Make sure that you have specified reachable DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf and access to destination port 110 is allowed by your firewall. but > when i type in the same website address in firefox browser I am able > to view the web interface of my external mail server. I am not able to > figure out where I am going wrong. This happens because in this case the name resolution is done by the proxy server and not the system running FC5. -- Manish http://www.tuxspace.com/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
