On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> >os2.ami.com.au is my computer; it's permanently attached to the Internet. it
>>
>> >also has an alias, www2.ami.com.au.
>> >
>> >I also use the name os2.ami.com.au for the domain name of my home LAN. Excep
>> t
>> >for one or two glitches, it works well.
>>
>> Is os2.ami.com.au a properly registered domain in your name?
>
>Define "registered."
>
>It's a box in my ISP's domain.
Ok, I meant "os2.ami.com.au" is a real FQDN box. As in, you
didn't just pull the name out of the air and use it.
>> Non-authoritative answer:
>> Name: os2.ami.com.au
>> Address: 203.55.31.51
>>
>> If the above isn't you, then this could be the problem. ;o)
>
>How else do you supposed I get my mail??
Right, sorry I didn't notice. ;o)
>> Your hostname is resolveable if it is the above nslookup I did.
>> Unless your machine announces itself as something else via
>> SMTP. In that case it is likely a sendmail misconfig.
>
>My home computer says 'helo emu.os2.ami.com.au' because that's it's
>fully-qualified name.
>
>It's once in some years someone's refused to talk to me.
Perhaps their server is misconfigured then?
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