[KLUG Members] Across the world, sure! Across the room? No!

[Robert G. Brown]

>> I have a webserver on one side of the room, and a mail server 
>> on the other side of the room (but on the same subnet).
>Wow, that's a BIG subnet!  :-)
It's a big room! :)

>> I'm sure someone on this list has done this before, probably to
>> the point where it can be done while sleeping.... 
>I'm betting your problem has to do with host name resolution.
>If your servers are behind your firewall, the private IP's don't 
>match up with the public IP's your server names resolve to.
You may well be right, but i think I solved that problem in the past.

>But, I'd need a lot more details than you supplied, to be sure.
Well, what details would you like? 
Do you want to do this via private e-mail and then we can report the
solution back to the list?

>If that's the case, I run my own internal DNS servers at work to
>get around that problem.  You _may_ also be able to handle it in
>/etc/hosts .
I've already got a DNS server running locally. I needed to set that
up so I could use mail clients on machines around the LAN here. I've
added the new machine.

						Regards,
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