Re: Mail won't leave system

1999-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
n 07 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Don't trust it, the man pages are often broken. > I can tell you that if I touch my /etc/resolv.conf, I have huge > troubles. > [much useful stuff snipped] Thanks very much for this helpful reply. It clarifies things considerably. In the meantime, I'd

Re: Mail won't leave system

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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 me

Mail won't leave system

1999-10-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
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". I've been over all the config files I can find