[TriLUG] Hopefully not so easy...

[Chris Knowles]

<calming voice>
Don't know why you are ranting at me.

Telocity uses static IP addresses.  I just dyndns because I used them when I 
was rr.com

Thanks for the rant in any case.

</calming voice>
CJK

On Friday 03 May 2002 08:54 am, John F Davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> /action rant on
>
> Yeah you can play games with dynamic ips and such, but a simpler approach
> is to get yourself a static ip.  What's it cost?  An extra $5
> a month or something.
>
> It doesn't look as cool, but it works and its the right thing to do.  Then
> again maybe you like doing it the hard way.
> (I got this 3133t dynim.ip setup so I don't have to pay for static ip's and
> I host my own mail and real audio server. -=Hax0RDud3=-)
>
> Case in point, do a nslookup on www.skink.net and a reverse using the ip.
> It all works.   (The webpage is stock since I haven't
> restored the old ones from backup yet.)  I host my own mail and I have been
> doing so for years.  Its brain dead simple.
>
> Also, I'll pass on a work of advice I received when I was young and I knew
> everything.  I think it applies in this case.
> "If its hard work, then you are doing it wrong."
>
> /action rant off
>
> JD
>
> Chris Knowles <knowlesc at telocity.com>@trilug.org on 05/03/2002 07:51:33 AM
>
> Please respond to trilug at trilug.org
>
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>
>
> To:    trilug at trilug.org
> cc:
> Subject:    [TriLUG] Hopefully not so easy...
>
>
>
> Got another one for you.
>
> Ever since I discovered fetchmail, I've also been using sendmail to send
> out
> my e-mail.  (In that telocity gets cranky when you haven't just checked
> your
> e-mail before you try using their SMTP server.)
>
> Now, I've set the hostnames of the box I'm using using the GUI programs.
> (That question was for a firewall)
>
> PRoblem is, some domains are returning my e-mail saying that the sending
> domain must exist.  And the domain they think my e-mail is coming from is
> localhost.locadomain.
>
> So, what do I do to allow myself to send mail?  I'm looking at the headers
> now
> (And I've sent this from the box in question) and I see a lot of
> knowlesc at localhost and such, but I've set the domain name to
> deneb.dyndns.org.  Do I need to change some sendmail configuration?
>
> CJK
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