On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:05:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > In the last couple of days I'v suddenly been unable to send out mail > (I'm sending this from a different machine). > > I'm using Slink, with smail. I have two ISPs (Freeserve and Demon); it > happens with both. I get an error message "BIND server failure". ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Check aither your /etc/resolv.conf on this machine, and your DNS server, one is broken, so the ISP's addresses cannot be resolved. /etc/resolv.conf must contain: domain mydomain search myserver.mydomain mydomain nameserver 192.168.1.1 (if its your svr IP address, of course :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.