Godwin Stewart wrote: > No. It's the name of my workstation which is behind the NAT box. > However, since I sometimes communicate with MTAs outside of my LAN (I > bypass them on occasion), "dragonfly.bonivet.net" still has to resolve > to the *public* IP address from which the inbound connection is > perceived to be coming by the remote MTA. That is why, seen from the > outside, dragonfly.bonivet.net = 81.56.185.133. Seen from *inside* my > LAN (on which I'm running my own nameserver), dragonfly.bonivet.net is > 192.168.1.254. > >> So, what I don't understand, is how should a strictly Desktop >> machine, that does not have a web server running on it, and has only >> localhost sendmail running, and which share a single static IP >> address on the DSL modem/router with any an all other non-server >> Desktop machines (through the magic of NAT)... be named? > > Think outside the box. > Thanks... very clearly described! I will study up on this, and see what I can figure out. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ -- You are receiving this message as part of your subscription to the "ringzero" mailing list at freelists.org. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to ringzero-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe