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Brooks > -----Original Message----- > From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:10 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Choosing private domain name > > > Hi, > > some time ago, I had a private domain name (in-bonn.de) for my > stand-alone PC with dialup connection and one of the numeric > IP-adddresses, which are reserved for this purpose. > > As some ftp servers on the net won't let me access them (among others > the german CTAN, ftp.dante.de -- german ftpp admins seems to be more > picky about this) because not finding my domain in DNS, so I changed > my domain name to that of my university. ftp access worked since then. > > The problem was then, that I couldn't manage to configure any of the > many MTAs (exim, sendmail, qmail) to accept mail for the domain > uni-bonn.de. All of them wanted to see users with this domain name in > their address as local, so the mail was rejected or vanished without > even to show up in the spool. > > So which is the normal way to choose a local domain name for a stand > alone PC? Any way to come out of this absurd situation? > > Thanks for your answers, > joachim > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
