RE: [cobalt-users] Qube2 - reverse name lookup while checking email

[Joerg Kalisch <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 20.10.00 14:44 -0500, you wrote:

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but is your Qube its own primary DNS server?

No. In the network settings, i have entered the primary and the secon-
dary DNS of my ISP (these values will be overwritten by the DNS settings
in the ISDN profile every dial-up).

I think, entering somethink like 192.168.0.1 as a primary DNS and ente-
ring the primary DNS of my ISP as a secondary DNS in network settings
(and the ISDN profile) can solve this problem - but it's the wrong way
to solve it (because of forwarding DNS requests will not longer work).

Please have a look at the following mail for this:

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X-Original-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:31:37 -0500 
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:31:37 -0500 

See the recent threads on DNS in the archives; we've just dealt with the 
topic (I posed the question) and several people had useful things to say. 
Particularly look at "recursive DNS" in the archives.
Short answer: your DNS server does this by default, no configuration 
required. You set it up to answer things it knows about; anything else, it 
goes and asks the two nameservers you configured for it in the Control 
Panel -> Network -> Ethernet part of the admin interface.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz 
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