We have a registered domain that we use for e-mail. I want e-mail send from the intranet to go to the server and be processed without triggering our internet link (dial on demand), but don't want to be a master dns for the domain name since the web site and stuff has a real internet addresses and is contorled by other people. I just want to have hearingsociety.org have a local MX record and all other dns requests handled by the forwarders. I currently have in my domain.hosts: @ IN SOA hearing.org. server.hearing.org. ( 1997080600 ; serial number 10800 ; refresh rate (3 hours) 1800 ; retry (30 minutes) 1209600 ; expire (2 weeks) 604800 ) ; minium (1 week) MX 5 server.hearing.org. NS server.hearing.org. # NS hearing.org. hearingsociety.org. MX 3 server.hearing.org. server A 192.168.1.1 finance A 192.168.1.211 giving hearingsociety.org a MX record; however, since in /etc/named.conf, domain.hosts is only in the zone for hearing.org zone "hearing.org" { type master; file "domain.hosts"; }; This works, but when our internet access stopped, local mail would not get delivered I think because the dns lookup somehow needed outside access to resolve the MX on hearingsociety.org -- when I shut down named and added a line to the /etc/hosts it fixed the problem, but that messes up website dns lookups. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org