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To: milo_morai who wrote (117143)6/22/2000 12:53:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1578398
 
OT: Getting my email to work using Linksys router/switch.

<Try putting in the ip address of the mail server and the smtp server in your programs settings instead so it doesn't have to resolve the name.>

Regarding the first suggestion, using the ip address rather than the name of the mail server, yes, that works. I know this because I had already done that on my son's PC when I was using a proxy program for Internet sharing. His email is working because Netscape still has the ip addresses in the email setup.

There should be a way to do it that will work if they change IP addresses on the mail servers, but maybe I'm asking too much.

<Also may sure you have both DNS IP's entries in both PC's TCP/IP settings.>

First, neither PC is a server now, they're both connected to ports on the router/switch. DNS seems to work fine on my PC, which has absolutly no "Gateway" or "DNS" info in the TCP/IP properties. Name resolution also works on my son's PC which still has the DNS server info in TCP/IP properties. When I was using Sygate on my PC as a proxy server, DNS was flaky until I entered that info into TCP/IP on any remote PC's.

Thank you for your response, I'd prefer not to have to enter IP addresses, but maybe that's not possible.

Petz
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