[OLUG] finally :)

[puzzled]

 Like many things that @home does this is just plain broken. mail is just mail, right? Nope - its
actually a mail server for each market, near as I can figure. They should have done somthing like
<market_name>_mail ie omaha_mail, jerseycity_mail, whatever ...


  The other obvious broken thing is having IP addresses from two different subnets on the same cable
modem ... utterly ruins local transfer rate and you have to do something wacky like a secondary address
on each device on the segment which only works until you're cursed with one windows95 box that *must*
stay on for your wife ... *grrr*

   When I am king these obivously stupid things will be banished and I'll come up with my own
incomprehensible policies which will drive everyone to distraction but me :-)




mesc wrote:

> Ty guys that makes sense i'll try that
>
> puzzled wrote:
>
> >   the full address is mail.<something>.ne.home.com
> >
> >   look at your sign up sheet and you're attached to a particular node - for example omhaw1, omhas1,
> > etc - substitute that for the <something> above and your email will work. For that matter you could
> > just put mail.omhas1.ne.home.com and that should work as well.
> >
> > add 'search omhas1.ne.home.com' to /etc/resolv.conf and that should work, too
> >
> > Adam Lassek wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, this is a very common problem. I think you'll probably have to call
> > > tech support and make them give you the full address for the mail
> > > server, unless there's someone else here on OLUG that has already gone
> > > through this.
> > >
> > > I have a friend who's using Cox, and he had the exact same problem.
> > >
> > > mesc wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I finally got my linux online thanks to all your help.My symbolic link
> > > > problem was /etc/resolv.conf was pointing to itself so I removed that
> > > > link.I  couldn't post this in my linux's netscape because cox at home's
> > > > mail server is just called mail and their news server is just called
> > > > news and netscape couldn't find those,also it said my return e-mail
> > > > address was invalid (mescie at home)as it needed a dot com or dot net on
> > > > the end.Are there any other @home users that had this problem?
> > > >
> > > >                 Gary Martin
> > > >
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