On Mon, 05 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think I've heard odd things about networking on hamm not knowing > about localhost - tell me, is localhost mentioned in /etc/hosts? Can > you telnet to localhost? What does /etc/host.conf look like?
/etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 0.0.0.0 bobspc bobspc.metrolink.net /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on I have successfully tested "telnet localhost" with three levels of recursion. However, since this was an upgrade from rex to hamm, the network configuration was not done by hamm. My original problem was fixed by following the suggestion by Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as follows: > Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in > /etc/inetd.conf instead of as a daemon. Uncomment the line in inetd.conf > and HUP inetd. However fixing that so that smtp was available revealed another problem. smail didn't know about localhost, and put all incoming mail in the queue to be sent back to the sender as "[EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknown address". I fixed this by adding "localhost" to the third line of /etc/smail/config, making the first section read: visible_name=metrolink.net -domains hostnames=bobspc:localhost This is in the hamm partition; in my bo partition it still works fine with "hostnames=bobspc". This suggests that what "you've heard about networking on hamm not knowing about localhost" is true, and perhaps smail is the problem. It doesn't appear to be due to a /etc/hosts being misconfigured. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .