DNS Issue

Dan Shoop shoop at iwiring.net
Tue Mar 20 12:56:02 PDT 2007


At 1:25 PM -0500 3/20/07, Joe Francis wrote:
>We use an external ISP for our email. Because I am behind a firewall, I have
>set up the DNS on My OS 10.4 server as a .local.

That's a bad idea. .local is for Bonjour. It does it's own "DNS-like" 
thing. You've now foobared this.

>I am now experiencing email issues.

Yep.

>  Internal messages are not all going
>through. We have 2 variations on our emails, both work with the ISP, but
>only one is going through for my window users-my mac users seem to be okay.
>I believe it is a DNS issue.
>What do I need to do to solve this issue?

Fix your DNS. Don't use .local in DNS.
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-dhan

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