Whoever is doing DNS for you should be able to add appropriate entries for
you if you ask... Hopefully that's not a difficult task.

Running your own DNS isn't a bad thing, if you're up for it, but not
necessary.

You also don't need to have dns turned on on your 3000 for NetMail/3000 to
function - you can just put the IP address of your primary DNS server in
Netmail's global config screen and it'll use DNS even if the rest of your
system doesn't.

 -Chris Bartram

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Robert Mills
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:04 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] NET: Urgent RESLVCNF.NET.SYS
assistance required

                Thanks to all for your fast replies.

                We don't have our own DNS, we use our ISP's one to
validate/resolve email
                addresses.

                Looks as if we are going to have to use DNS Bind/iX on the
3000 and pass
                unknown requests to our ISP's DNS. We've commented out the
nameserver
                entries in RESLVCNF file and have turned off NetMail until
Bind/iX is up and
                running. At the moment we are only using NetMail as a backup
for our M$ mail
                server so that's OK.

                Special thanks go to:

                  Ted (Ashton) for reminding me that most HP manuals are
available online.

                  Rich (Roemer) for a print of the resolv.conf man page from
his U*ix box.
                  Couldn't find the Posix one on our 3000, wonder where it
is?

                regards,
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