[luau] dns question?

[R Scott Belford]

Thanks for the suggestion, Jim.  Good to hear from you.  The hosts file 
in the %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc was the ticket for the win2k 
box.  It doesn't seem to do the trick on the win98 box as yuser 
suggested.  Ken suggested looking at the link at  http://lmhosts.tcp-
ip.nu about lmhosts.  I have tried it as well on the win98 box to no 
avail.  The mail server is pingable from the win98 box, hosts and 
lmhosts just don't seem to be resolving to the domain I have chosen and 
used successfully on the win2k box.  I have made sure that they kept 
their *.sam extension in the name, so I reckon its not a text formatting 
issue.  Any suggestions.

I can use the mail server just fine with its ip address from any of the 
clients.  It is comfortable doing all this relaying, but using a name 
would be so much more fun.

scott

On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 09:13  AM, Jaymes Schooler wrote:

> Yes.
>
> for WinNT create a HOSTS file in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc
>
> Make your entries like this:
>
> 44.44.45.1 'testserver'
>
>
> Idea...
>
> Add the network and host info into the /etc/mail/access file like this
>
> 10.0	      RELAY
> 192.168.	RELAY
> 192.1.1.72	RELAY
>
> Why not add RELAY in your sendmail.mc file and add
> FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access')
> and
> FEATURE('relay_hosts_only')
>
> ACCESS_LIST in your sendmail.mc then add the IP addresses or the subnet 
> into
> the access file in /etc/mail directory then do rebuild your 
> /etc/sendmail.cf
> file using:
>
> M4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
>
> After you do this all hosts on the 192.168.x.x and the 10.0.x.x network 
> and
> the host 192.1.1.72 can relay and receive mail from your sendmail.
>
> That way you don't have to worry about MicroCrap's settings
>
>
> Just make sure to read the Man Pages on sendmail
>
>
> Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> [mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of R Scott Belford
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:03 AM
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: [luau] dns question?
>
>
> Does windows have an equivalent of /etc/hosts?  I ask because I have a
> mail server for my lan with a private ip.  My boxes use the internet and
> public dns servers.  I am guessing that the only way that I can send
> mail through the local mail server from a windows box to another lan
> client and be able to use a domain (fantasy, not registered) name is to
> set up a domain server on my lan that resolves my private ip address to
> whatever fantasy domain I choose.  If you made it through that last
> sentence, is this correct?  Is there a way to use fictional domains on a
> private lan using public dns without setting up a private dns?  I know
> that the domains can't be anything registered because the public dns's
> will resolve them to sites unwanted.
>
> scott
>
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