Re: E-mail Problems

Justin,
with all due respect, but this workaround is rubbish ...

A HOST table is for .... HOSTS
what you entered is a DOMAIN name which has nothing to do
with the host table at all.

As Jeff already said, the solution is to setup the right DNS settings
for your site, as I already asked you for the details of this, as far
as you know about them.
What is your setup under CFGTCP option 12 (domain settings) ?
You intend to use mail.reliatek.com as your mailserver's name.
All you got to do now is to plan your DNS-System, is it the
AS/400 to be your nameserver ? Take Ops Nav, setup a primary zone
"reliatek.com." (there is a DOT at the end if this !!!) and add at least
your AS/400 system with the name "www" and an alias called "mail"
for it with the right IP address in that record. After this has been done
add an MX record for this domain to point at that host.
Decide which host (usually the mailserver of your ISP) ist to be the
backup MX and set that second MX accordingly.
Example:
10     MX     mail.reliatek.com
20     MX     mailer.of-your-isp.com

10 and 20 are simply numbers to setup a priority scheme on the mail
server systems, if the one with the lowest number (=highest priority) fails
the one with the next number is tkane as a backup. The lowest number
is tried at first for delivery of mail.

HTH, regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch




Justin Houchin schrieb:

> Once I added Reliatek.com to my host entries, I can now send mail to
> Justin@reliatek.com. But I am going to setup mail.reliatek.com.
>
>                       Work with TCP/IP Host Table Entries
>
>                                                              System:
> RTEK
>  Type options, press Enter.
>
>    1=Add   2=Change   4=Remove   5=Display   7=Rename
>
>       Internet         Host
>
>  Opt  Address          Name
>
>       127.0.0.1        LOOPBACK
>
>                        LOCALHOST
>
>       192.168.0.6      reliatek.com      <------------added this
>
>                        www.reliatek.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Silberberg
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:52 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: E-mail Problems
>
> Justin,
>
>         Al this magic is in the Domain Name Server(s) setup for your
> site
> !!!  A URL is a host name as well as a test string for the HTML Server
> to
> parse.  What you need to know is how the MX & A records are setup for
> the
> domain, what order they are in, and how they resolve.
>
>         Remember that a host name is nothing more than a symbolic
> representation for the IP Address of your system. Then once the packet
> is on
> the system different processes monitor the different services / ports
> and
> take over to resolve things. So if  www.reliatek.com  resolves to
> 172.16.200.10 and it's a HTML URL than port 80 or 443 might grab it, if
> it's
> mail then port 25 might grab it, if it's telnet then port 22 ect...
>
>         Now where the magic comes in is when you want all the mail for
> reliatek.com regardless of the hosts supported to be routed to a single
> system. To do this in the DNS you provide an MX for the mail server at
> the
> zone level and then your individual servers below it.
>
>         For even more magic, if you have an internal private network,
> you
> need both a public DNS and a Private DNS, and again the zone records
> need to
> be setup for the DNS to route all the domain mail to the correct
> server..
>
>         This is not beginners stuff, have fun !!
>
>         JMS..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Houchin" <jhouchin9@charter.net>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:32 PM
> Subject: RE: E-mail Problems
>
> > Wait,
> > I think I am confusing my Host name with my URL. Could someone
> > explain how I should have set this up??
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Justin Houchin
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:23 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: E-mail Problems
> >
> > John Ross just figured out that if you use Justin@www.reliatek.com
> > instead of Justin@reliatek.com it works. Now just have to figure out
> how
> > to get it to work with Justin@reliatek.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Andy
> Nolen-Parkhouse
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:55 AM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: E-mail Problems
> >
> > Justin,
> >
> > I raised the issue of the 'www' hostname.  No, I can't see that it is
> a
> > problem.  It was just that because 'www' is the universal prefix for
> the
> > World Wide Web, it struck me as potentially confusing.  If someone
> told
> > me that they had a host named www.reliatek.com, I would think that
> they
> > were confusing their URL and host names.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
> >
> > > Subject: E-mail Problems
> > >
> > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > > --
> > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > > Do you all feel the problem lies in the "www", should I go and setup
> > > mail.reliatek.com?
> > >
> > >
> > > Justin Houchin
> >
> >