Subject: internal network (was Re: sendmail problem)
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 11:35:07 AKST
okay.. so are you talking about a firewall or gateway or router or what?
(I apologize - i'm not too up on networking terminology) Is this
something I can set up with my current server by adding a second nic and
using software? or do I need to go down to compusa or wherever and buy a
little box off the shelf?
And to make sure i'm on the same page as you, this would then have the
server or gateway or whatever it's called have the 24.237.3.124 static
ip from gci, and all the other computers/NICs on the network would have
addresses assigned manually by myself? Or I spose I could set up my own
dhcp server also, right?
Justin
James F. Zuelow Jr. wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Mckinney" <mckinney@gci.net>
> To: "James F. Zuelow Jr." <jamesz@ideafamilies.org>
> Cc: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@yahoo.com>; "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: sendmail problem
>
>
>
>
>>can't resolve the workstation IP address. It is trying to do it via
>>
> DNS
>
>>but, unless you are running a DNS server internally (I assume not)
>>
> then
>
>>this will fail. You might try adding
>>
>
> The problem for Justin is that he doesn't have an "internal" network -
> his workstation gets it's IP dynamically from GCI.
>
> Justin, I think you'll save a lot of time & trouble by either setting up
> an internal network behind a firewall, or else going the ESMTP
> Authentication route with Sendmail. The advantage of the latter is that
> it would let you send enderakonline.com e-mails from work. The
> advantage of the former is that your network traffic stays on your
> network, behind the firewall. GCI has started to use some dynamic IP
> addresses for cable modems that are not in the 24.237.x.x range. If
> that happens to you, all of the traffic from your workstation will go
> out your cable modem, to GCI's servers, and back to your cable modem to
> be delivered to the server. (See the support forums at www.gci.net for
> details.) An internal network would solve your sendmail problem as well
> as this potential routing problem for your dynamic IP workstation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
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