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mstembri3
02-21-2001, 11:16 PM
The linux box is finally online and can ping ips and hostnames w/o a problem. I've used LYNX to browse some pages. Pretty neat :)
Next up is mail. I tried sending an email using lynx mail, and it acted as though it went through. However I see that the message did not transmit due to this error:
permanent fatal error....
<root@localhost.localdomain>... Sender domain must exist
Where do I change the sender domain information? Been looking through the archives here and on the net, no luck so far.
Thanks.
X_console
02-22-2001, 12:16 AM
lynx mail? Haven't heard of that... try logging in as root and typing "hostname whatever.org" or just running your network setup software and using that to change your hostname.
mstembri3
02-22-2001, 12:22 AM
What is the name of the network setup utility? I used it last week and for the life of me can't remember what it's called. It's a blue screen with 4 or 5 fields to fill in...
The_Stack
02-23-2001, 02:41 PM
I had a similar error when attempting to send e-mail two/from machines on my private 192.168.x.x network.
It seems as though sendmail attempts to verify the sending domain before accepting the e-mail.
Since 192.168.x.x is a private network, a solution was to setup a DNS server on one of the machines on my intranet in order to provide DNS lookups. First, I setup the appropriate internal domain and host IP in the BIND configuration files. Second, I set all my machines on the intranet to use the machine as their DNS server.
Whenever I send e-mail to an internal machine, the machine uses the DNS server to lookup the sending domain name (which is of course the private network) and the e-mail is accepted.
You can set-up a DNS server by reading the DNS-HOWTO. Make sure to pick a bogus domain name if you are setting up a DNS server within a private network.
Good Luck!
FoBoT
02-23-2001, 02:45 PM
Originally posted by mstembri3:
What is the name of the network setup utility? I used it last week and for the life of me can't remember what it's called. It's a blue screen with 4 or 5 fields to fill in...
this (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/nicinstall.html) NHF mentions "netcfg", i haven't used it though