Mail Problems on 3B2/600

[~XT6561110~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~]

In article <1990Feb15.153534.23100 at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> chim at eceimg.ncsu.edu (Bill Chimiak) writes:
>When sending mail on my 3B2/600 using mail or mailx, if the machine
>cannot find it (I imagine in /etc/hosts), the mail comes back.  Now one
>solution is for me to duplicate the /etc/hosts table on our reginal
>nameserver.  This would be quite taxing on our machines resources.  A
>more desireable solution would be to use a NAMESERVER mechanism as
>Berkeley-like systems provide.

I believe WIN 3.0 products have this functionality.  I
remember that when I loaded both the 3B and 386 products they
ask you if you want to load the name server software.
However, I believe it checks the nameserver FIRST, since when
I installed the name server software and didn't administer it
telnet and rlogin waited for the nameserver to time out (about 30
seconds) before checking /etc/hosts.

Hope this was what you were looking for,

-- 
Frank McGee, AT&T
Entry Level Systems Support
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