Getting incoming mail within a non-Netinfo network

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1 total messages Started by Heng-Yi Lin Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:11

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Author: Heng-Yi Lin
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:11

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Hi all,

I just spent several hours reading the System Admin manual but still
could not fix this problem.  I have a stand-alone NeXTCube (NS2.0)
twisted-paired to a non-Netinfo network.  The machine is configured
with an assigned + registered hostname (b206d.tsq.brown.edu) in the
brown.edu domain and an assigned IP address (you should be able to
nslookup the machine).  I have also enabled BIND using the brown.edu
nameserver.

So far ftp, rlogin, telnet, as well as outgoing mail work correctly.
The problem is that incoming mail messages still are not delivered
correctly -- they bounced back to the sender (you can try this too,
mail hlin@b206d.tsq.brown.edu).  When I boot the machine, I get this:

	mount: mailhost not in hosts database
		giving up on /usr/spool/mail
	mount: mailhost not in hosts database
		giving up on /LocalLibrary/Images/People

Any tips on how to add mailhost to the hosts database or how to
resolve this situation are appreciated.  Please e-mail as I doubt this
will be of general interest.  Thanks.

-- Heng

[] Heng-Yi Lin, hyl@cs.brown.edu, hyl@browncs.BITNET
[] PO Box 4901, Brown Univ., Providence, RI 02912
[] Phone/Fax: 401.274.4217 or Phone: 401.863.4988

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