I have a little problem and is causing me a head ache and hope that someone can help me with it.

Ok, heres the setup.

1. I have a unix server that users connect to from remote sites via telnet & ftp.

2. On the machine a backup runs every night which emails root with information on the backup. The root account has a .forward file which forwards the email onto a list of other users using Outlook and not their unix mail account.

Heres the problem. A while ago all the DNS for our site was change and since then the backup mail and remote logins will not work together properly. The DNS on the unix machine was changed to match all the new DNS addresses but the only way to make connection time near the required speed is to delete the resolv.conf file, which then stops mail working.

Its a DNS problem but does anyone have any idea about now to make the connection time better and still use the resolve.conf file.

Thanks for your time.