RE: E-mail problems

Yes, John I get a reply when I ping www.yahoo.com

Justin Houchin
Programmer
ReliaTek, Inc
jhouchin9@charter.net


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of John Ross
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:38 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: E-mail problems

At 10:20 AM 6/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I can connect by domain name to the AS400 from outside of my network.
>For some reason, if I try to do this from the inside(of router) I get
>the routers admin page. I think this is a routing issue.

It probably checks which connection you are connecting on, from outside
connection it gets forwarded.

>Should I change
>I Domain Name Server Address to the external address of our ISP's DNS
>Server instead of the router's IP address?

That depends, if you do a ping yahoo.com  from the AS/400 does it return
the IP address of yahoo. If so it is doing what you need it to do so
leave
it set that way if not then try the IP address or your ISP's DNS.

>I am using "www" because I
>have not setup "mail" yet. And doesn't it work the same way. Our
>webserver is the same ip address as is our e-mail server. So I should
be
>able to use www.relaitek.com for both, right????

You can. But after you get it working I would look at using an MX
record.
Software should use the A record if it does not find an MX record, but
some
may not.

John Ross

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