DNS Issue

[Dan Shoop]

At 3:01 PM -0500 3/20/07, Joe Francis wrote:
>So what I need to do is simply go into the DNS settings in the Server Admin
>and delete the .local and all should be well in the world?
>
>
>
>On 3/20/07 2:56 PM, "Dan Shoop" <shoop at iwiring.net> wrote:
>
>>  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.

Well it's not very clear wht you're trying to do or why you took this 
route to begin with or what had done, so it's all rather hard to say.

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-dhan

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