From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Subject: Re: [Q] Receiving with smail and SLIP. Date: 5 Aug 1993 19:14:28 GMT
In article <23kh00INNlbf@owl.csrv.uidaho.edu> hewitt901@moscow.uidaho.edu (Eric J. Hewitt) writes:
| Hi-
|
| I have recently configured my Linux system to run SLIP to a local server. The
| server uses dynamic IP addresses, and so I have a different address each time
| I connect. It also has no method of connecting my IP address with a name.
Um, sounds like the SLIP server is not making entries in the host
table or nameserver. Just a guess, but it may be that RARP is not
working properly.
| What I would like to do is receive mail over normal SMTP with smail. I have
| been successful at sending mail out, but when I try to send a letter to
| my Linux box, it never gets delivered. Through research, I have discovered
| that the mail is getting sent to my machine, and then it tries to defer
| through the smarthost. For some reason, it does not think that the mail
| is at the right address. I assume that this is because the local hostname
| is dwarf, but the mail is being sent to 129.101.112.101 (or whatever the IP
My copy of your message ended here, but I would expect the
name to IP to be done when delivery was attempted. Obviously if
the address is an IP address, or the translation is done just
once and the old (and possibly incorrect) IP reused on retries,
then you get this problem.
There is another way to do this, which may or may not be
useful to you, which is to run uucp over TCP, insuring that the
resolution is always by name and not by number. This is not what
you want to do, probably, but it might solve your problem.
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