[nos-bbs] Minimal local mail forwarding setup?

Michael Curry dgspotman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 00:34:55 EDT 2011


Well, gee, the more I look into this, the more confused I get...

First of all, regarding the line I tried putting into domain.txt:

127.0.0.1 IN A k1bbs
The reason it didn't look right was that... it *wasn't* right. I had
imitated the format that I found on page 87 of "Networking Without Wires:
Radio Based TCP/IP" (ftp://ftp.tapr.org/projects/n8urbook/n8ur-dr1.pdf),
which was wrong.

But even after sorting that out, and fixing my domain.txt file to look like:
---------
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
k1bbs IN A 127.0.0.1
---------
... still no joy.

Next, although N8UR strongly advocates putting "localhost" into domain.txt,
other examples out there (such as the one at
http://mysite.verizon.net/ka1fsb/domain.html) don't include it. (So was N8UR
wrong about that, too?)

Now, since my machine that hosts JNOS does *not* have an address on the 44
net, and isn't part of the ampr.org domain (remember, I want to get it
functioning as a simple, standalone mail drop accessible only via AX.25 and
the local "bbs" command), I didn't see any point in setting the domain
prefix or giving k1bbs a FQDN.

But just to see what would happen, I changed the hostname to "k1bbs.ampr.org"
and added "domain suffix ampr.org." to my autoexec.nos file, and changed my
domain.txt file to:
----------
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
k1bbs.ampr.org. IN A 127.0.0.1
----------
Again, no joy.

So in a final act of desperation I changed the domain.txt file to:
----------
 localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
k1bbs.ampr.org. IN A 44.128.10.64
----------

And now when I kick SMTP, I get:
---------
Trying Connection to 44.128.10.64
SMTP client Trying...
smtp sent: QUIT
----------
and no change in the contents of spool/mqueue or spool/mail.

Now, obviously, I don't really expect this last configuration to work, since
the IP address is bogus -- but at least I'm seeing some different behavior,
leading me to (wishfully?) think I'm getting close to the right track.

But I'm just not seeing what I need to do to tell JNOS that k1bbs is
localhost.

Anyone? I'm dyin' here...

M

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Michael Curry <dgspotman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> New JNOS user here (about 5 days in), trying to figure out the minimal
> configuration needed to get local mail (i.e., mail sent from one local user
> to another) to actually appear in the addressee's mailbox.
>
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