Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Re: smtpd doesn't start

Hello,

On Mon, 29 May 2017 13:04:03 -0400 Choose a display name wrote:
> If I understand correct, the problem is that my DNS server on
> 192.168.1.1 can't lookup an IP address for "mypcname", which is not a
> registered domain name, just cooked-up hostname of the machine
> running smtpd.
>
> Honestly, I don't know how it could be fixed. Could anybody help me?

Serve a DNS domain on your network, with an A record for that machine.

Some domain names commonly used for private networks include:

.localdomain (.local interferes with iStuff, avoid it)
.internal
.private
.priv
.lan

This can be done directly in Unbound, or stubbed to NSD.

Cheers,
--
Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7

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