On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a > Brian> network but I want bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I > Brian> am doing this so I can use the sendmail genericstable and > Brian> virtualtable and convert my addresses to the ones I want to > Brian> have everyone use for replys. > > I don't know sendmail, but I doubt it is necessary to have a running > bind to do address rewriting. This is completely unrelated. > > Brian> My problem is now if I am not connected to the net, everything > Brian> stops when I send a message. I have not changed my sendmail > Brian> configuration yet to vurtual hosting so I cannot see where that > Brian> is the problem. > > Brian> I installed the bind package with no forwarding so it is in > Brian> caching setup. > > So where does your bind gets it's info, if you didn't specify > forwarders (= hosts to ask for entries it doesn't know = your ISP's > DNS servers)? It tries to ask the root servers. > I thought forwaders where for a local network. That is why I did not put any in.
> I believe you have a misconception about the thing you want to setup > and solve. What should your bind cache, and where does it get this info > from? Where did you read about this bind <-> addressrewriting > connection? > I got this from the sendmail.org web site. It clames that you need it running in order to do vurtual hosts and address rerouting. I have tryed to do it without setting up a bind server and it totally ignores the address changes so I am adding the bind server to see if they are right. > Ciao, > Martin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
