Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Rino Mardo
- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users' List Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:04 AM Subject: Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM > > Hi, > > 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I > notice lots o

(OT sorta ) Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-09-01 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:04:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I > notice lots o' people usin' it. :) HTH :== hope that helps > > I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around > abo

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-08-31 Thread burningclown
Hi, 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I notice lots o' people usin' it. :) I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file: with mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-08-31 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:02:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > ... essentially, I'm floundering here, because at base I'm not sure WHAT > eximconfig option to choose at the outset. I have a DSL connection but it > seems like eximconfig option (2) (Internet site using smarthost)

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread burningclown
Once again this list proves a treasure trove. ::This:: is one of the reasons working with this stuff is so much damned fun - the FREE EXCHANGE OF INFO! Thanks all!! -gb -- snip -- > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jakob B. Jensen wrote: > There is a big DNS server (plus 12 mirrors) on the Internet which

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:39:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Who "does" what in that situation? The DSL provider (Speakeasy) has > also provided me with DNS server addresses ... they know nada about the > domain I'm hosting with another company (should they?) ... that other > hosting co

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread burningclown
All, Thanks for the responses/discussions on this topic. I'm gonna secure myself copies both of the O'Reilly TCP/IP book and the DNS/BIND book and cross my fingers that they'll lift the fog for me. In the meantime: I -think- I'm a trifle befuddled by my own situation, where I have a DSL provider

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Monday 27 August 2001 09:31, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > > The last one in the file is what wins... > > are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "d

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > The last one in the file is what wins... are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "domain" did, but i didn't know that they were mutually diskliking

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. The last one in the file is what wins... Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:44:00AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:22:37PM -0500): > > A couple of questions, subsequently ... > > pleas

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
> that someone who hosts burningclown.com. who are they? and how much do > they charge you? because i am pretty sure they won't just add an A > record subdomain, at least not at no charge. The hosting company is WestHost: http://www.westhost.com. A great deal. G ++ http://www.bu

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:22:37PM -0500): > A couple of questions, subsequently ... please don't reply to my personal addy as well as debian-user... > This is my current /etc/resolv.conf: > > search speakeasy.net > nameserver 216.231.41.22 > nameserver 216.231.41.2 >

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
Hi, A couple of questions, subsequently ... > your /etc/resolv.conf file would be > > cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf > domain mydomain.com > search mydomain.com > nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1 > nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2 > nameserver 3

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
It does. Fantastic. Thanks. That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully. This, however, is a framework ... Cool beans! Glenn On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since > it's the *name* of your c

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since it's the *name* of your computer. however, that does not prevent you from fitting it into the big scheme of mydomain.com. let's say that you named your machine "pear," then /etc/hostname would read just pear, your /etc/hosts fil