Simon Slater wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 20:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
That sounds like nothing provides an answer for the current
addresses (DNS nor the hosts file).
Primary and secondary DNS are set in Network Configuration and
whois
says they belong to my ISP.
Will they reverse-resolve the IP address of your interface(s)? What
does "nslookup your_IP_address" return?
Server: 203.8.183.1
That's the DNS server you asked. It comes from a range assigned to AAPT
Limited.
Address: 203.8.183.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
The DNS server is providing a cached answer, the real answer might have
changed (but it might be raining near you. Whoops, it is).
96.171.101.59.in-addr.arpa name = C-59-101-171-96.mel.connect.net.au.
You can be addressed as C-59-101-171-96.mel.connect.net.au - that's your
unique host name.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
The following are the authoratative name servers. If you don't believe
203.8.183.1 then ask one of those.
171.101.59.in-addr.arpa nameserver = warrane.connect.com.au.
171.101.59.in-addr.arpa nameserver = yarrina.connect.com.au.
yarrina.connect.com.au internet address = 192.189.54.17
warrane.connect.com.au internet address = 192.189.54.33
connect is one of the older wholesalers in Oz. Probably it's an IAP for
AAPT.
I'm not at all sure what this output means. The laptop in question is
connected to the internet over LAN to another box which has the dialup
serial modem. This is the current local IP address
? What is "this?"
from /var/log/messages.
If you're starting up sendmail on your laptop (or any other computer on
your LAN), those name servers aren't going to help your sendmail match
up IP addresses it can see on your computer and their host names. That
has to be organised on your own LAN; I generally set up bind as that
scales well and I can add more computers, temporarily or permanently
without any fuss such as fiddling with hosts files.
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Cheers
John
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